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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Curl \Curl\, v. i. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. "Cirling billows." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. --Byron. [1913 Webster] He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. --Bret Harte. [1913 Webster] 3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curled} (k[^u]rld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curling}.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan. kr["o]lle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. {Curl}, n., {Cruller}.] 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. [1913 Webster] But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. --Cascoigne. [1913 Webster] 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. [1913 Webster] Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. [1913 Webster] Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert. [1913 Webster] 4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. [1913 Webster] Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), n. [Akin to D. krul, Dan. kr["o]lle. See {Curl}, v. ] 1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. [1913 Webster] Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. [1913 Webster] If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster] 3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. [1913 Webster] {Blue curls}. (Bot.) See under {Blue}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: curl n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: {coil}, {whorl}, {roll}, {curl}, {curlicue}, {ringlet}, {gyre}, {scroll}] 2: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933) [syn: {Curl}, {Robert Curl}, {Robert F. Curl}, {Robert Floyd Curl Jr.}] 3: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: {lock}, {curl}, {ringlet}, {whorl}] v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling" [syn: {curl}, {curve}, {kink}] 2: shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in" [syn: {curl up}, {curl}, {draw in}] 3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: {coil}, {loop}, {curl}] [ant: {uncoil}] 4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please" [syn: {curl}, {wave}] 5: play the Scottish game of curling