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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.
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Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
--Shak.
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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.
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Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden.
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Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope.
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Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
--Byron.
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He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on
the floor. --Bret Harte.
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3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
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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.
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But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
--Milton.
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3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton.
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Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
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4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
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5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
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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.
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Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. --Milton.
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2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance,
as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those
numberless waves or curls which usually arise from
the sand holes. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
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{Blue curls}. (Bot.) See under {Blue}.
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