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Definition of Curl
Pronunciation: kûrl | v. t. | 1. | To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. | | 2. | To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. | | 3. | To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. | | 4. | To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. | | 5. | (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve. | | 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. | | 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. | | 3. | To play at the game called curling. | | n. | 1. | A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. | | 2. | An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. | | 3. | A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. |
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arc, arch, bend, bend back, bow, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, circle, cirrus, coil, conchoid, corkscrew, crimp, crisp, crook, curlicue, curve, decurve, deflect, diacaustic, dome, ellipse, embow, entwine, evolute, festoon, flex, frizz, frizzle, gyre, helix, hook, hump, hunch, hyperbola, incurvate, incurve, inflect, involute, kink, lituus, lock, loop, parabola, ponytail, recurve, reflect, reflex, retroflex, ringlet, roll, round, sag, screw, scroll, sinus, spiral, swag, sweep, swirl, tendril, tracery, turn, twine, twirl, twist, vault, volute, volution, vortex, whirl, whorl, wind, wreathe
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