[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

curl \curl\ k^url, v. t. imp.  p. p. curled k^urld;
   p. pr.  vb. n. curling. akin to d. krullen, dan.
   kr"olle, 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 curledmegaera.                 --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
see also:
curled curling curl cruller 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

curl \curl\ k^url, n. akin to d. krul, dan. kr"olle. 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
see also:
curl blue curls blue 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

curl
     n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles syn:
           coil, whorl, roll, 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: robert curl, robert f. curl, robert
        floyd curl jr.
     3: a strand or cluster of hair syn: lock, ringlet, whorl
     v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at
          the ceiling" syn: 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, draw
        in
     3: wind around something in coils or loops syn: coil, loop
        ant: uncoil
     4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
        syn: wave
     5: play the scottish game of curling
see also:
coil whorl roll curlicue ringlet gyre 
scroll robert curl robert f. curl robert floyd curl jr. lock 
curve kink curl up draw in loop 
uncoil wave 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

75 moby thesaurus words for "curl":
   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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