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Webster 1913 Edition
Curl
Curl
(kûrl)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Curled
(kûrld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Curling
.] 1.
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
But
curl
their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne.
2.
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent’s body.
Of his tortuous train,
Curled
many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton.
3.
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locks
That
That
curled
Megæra. Milton.
Curling
with metaphors a plain intention. Herbert.
4.
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To
To
curl
the waves. Dryden.
5.
(Hat Making)
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl
,Verb.
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 groundThou seest it [hair] will not
curl
by nature. Shakespeare
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.
Then round her slender waist he
curled
. Dryden.
Curling
smokes from village tops are seen. Pope.
Gayly
curl
the waves before each dashing prow. Byron.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and
curled
up on the floor. Bret Harte.
3.
To play at the game called curling.
[Scot.]
1.
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In
In
curls
on either cheek played. Milton.
2.
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or
curls
which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton.
3.
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Webster 1828 Edition
Curl
CURL
,Verb.
T.
1.
To turn, bend or form into ringlets; to crisp; as the hair.2.
To writhe; to twist; to coil; as a serpent.3.
To dress with curls.The snaky locks that curled Megaera.
4.
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.Seas would be pools, without the brushing air to curl the waves.
CURL
,Verb.
I.
1.
To bend in contraction; to shrink into ringlets.2.
To rise in waves or undulation; to ripple; and particularly, to roll over at the summit; as a curling wave.3.
To rise in a winding current, and to roll over at the ends; as curling smoke.4.
To writhe; to twist itself.Then round her slender waist he curled.
5.
To shrink; to shrink back; to bend and sink. He curled down into a corner.CURL
,Noun.
1.
A ringlet of hair, or any thing of a like form.2.
Undulation; a waving; sinuosity; flexure.3.
A winding int he grain of wood.