Definition of curl

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Curl (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground..

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Curl :: Curl (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken..
Longirostres :: Longirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division..
Wreathy :: Wreathy (a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths..
Calamistration :: Calamistration (n.) The act or process of curling the hair.
Earlock :: Earlock (n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.
Curly :: Curly (a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Whimbrel :: Whimbrel (n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix..
Kink :: Kink (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord..
Poodle :: Poodle (n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks..
Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
Kinky :: Kinky (a.) Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair..
Crisp :: Crisp (a.) Curled with the ripple of the water.
Wool :: Wool (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates..
Crape :: Crape (n.) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk..
Displat :: Displat (v. t.) To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.
Wig :: Wig (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers..
Favorite :: Favorite (n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
Calamistrum :: Calamistrum (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs..
Curl :: Curl (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl :: Curl (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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