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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Beaucatcher :: Beaucatcher (n.) A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
Chervil :: Chervil (n.) A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads..
Endive :: Endive (n.) A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad..
Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
Curl :: Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity..
Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..
Crisp :: Crisp (a.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees..
Kinky :: Kinky (a.) Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair..
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..
Doughbird :: Doughbird (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.
Friz :: Friz (v. t.) To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp..
Trundletail :: Trundletail (n.) A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail..
Curl :: Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body..
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..
Astrakhan :: Astrakhan (n.) The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur..
Excelsior :: Excelsior (n.) A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair..
Calamistrate :: Calamistrate (v. i.) To curl or friz, as the hair..
Curled :: Curled (a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course)..
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Crisper :: Crisper (n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla..
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