meaning of curl
1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpents body.
3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
5. To shape (the brim) into a curve.
6. 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.
7. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
8. To play at the game called curling.
9. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
10. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc. ; flexure; sinuosity.
11. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
12. a strand or cluster of hair
Related Words
curl | curl up | curle | curled | curled pondweed | curled up | curledness | curler | curlew | curlew sandpiper | curleyleaf pondweed | curlicue | curliness | curling | curling iron | curlingly | curly | curly bracket | curly clematis | curly endive | curly grass | curly grass fern | curly-coated retriever | curly-heads | curlycue | curlycup gumweed |
