Part 2678

<blockquote>It is a pi<?/y a gentleman so very <b>curious</b> after things that were elegant and beatiful should not have been as <b>curious</b> as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.</def> "A<i>curious</i> tale"

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>A multitude of <b>curious</b> analogies. <i>Mocaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Many a quaint and <b>curious</b>volume of forgotten lore. <i>E. A. Poe.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light <b>curious</b> results. <i>C. J. Smith.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Curious arts</col>, <cd>magic. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<blockquote>Many . . . which used <b>curious arts</b> brought their books together, and burned them. <i>Acts xix. 19.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Inquisitive; prying. See <er>Inquisitive</er>.</syn>

<h1>Curiously</h1> <Xpage=357>

<hw>Cu"ri*ous*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a curious manner.</def>

<h1>Curiousness</h1> <Xpage=357>

<hw>Cu"ri*ous*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Carefulness; painstaking.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>My father's care With <b>curiousness</b> and cost did train me up. <i> Massinger.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Inquisitiveness; curiosity.</def>

<h1>Curl</h1> <Xpage=357>

<hw>Curl</hw> <tt>(k?rl)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Curled</er> <tt>(k?rld)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Curling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Akin to D. <ets>krullen</ets>, Dan. <ets>kr<?/lle</ets>, dial. Sw. <ets>krulla</ets> to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. <ets>crook</ets>. Cf. <er>Curl</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, <er>Cruller</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.</def>

<blockquote>But <b>curl</b> their locks with bodkins and with braid. <i>Cascoigne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.</def>

<blockquote>Of his tortuous train, <b>Curled</b> many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.</def>

<blockquote>Thicker than the snaky locks That <b>curled</b>Meg\'91ra. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Curling</b> with metaphors a plain intention. <i>Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.</def>

<blockquote>Seas would be pools without the brushing air To <b>curl</b> the waves. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Hat Making)</fld> <def>To shape (the brim) into a curve.</def>

<h1>Curl</h1> <Xpage=357>