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<hw>Curl</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To contract or bend into curis or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; <as>as, leaves lie <ex>curled</ex> on the ground</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Thou seest it will not <b>curl</b> by nature. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.</def> "<i>Cirling</i> billows."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>Then round her slender waist he <b>curled</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Curling</b> smokes from village tops are seen. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Gayly <b>curl</b> the waves before each dashing prow. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He smiled a king of sickly smile, and <b>curled</b> up on the floor. <i>Bret Harte.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To play at the game called <i>curling</i>.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

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

<hw>Curl</hw> <tt>(k?rl)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Akin to D. <ets>krul</ets>, Dan. <ets>kr<?/lle</ets>. See <er>Curl</er>, <tt>v.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.</def>

<blockquote>Under a coronet, his flowing hair In <b>curls</b> on either cheek played. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.</def>

<blockquote>If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or <b>curls</b> which usually arise from the sand holes. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.</def>

<cs><col>Blue curls</col>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Blue</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Curled</h1> <Xpage=357>

<hw>Curled</hw> <tt>(l?rld)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; <as>as, <ex>curled</ex> maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course)</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Curled hair</col> <fld>(Com.)</fld>, <cd>the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes.</cd></cs>

<i>McElrath.</i>

<h1>Curledness</h1> <Xpage=357>

<hw>Curl"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State of being curled; curliness.</def>

<h1>Curler</h1> <Xpage=357>

<hw>Curl"er</hw> <tt>(-?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, curls.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A player at the game called <i>curling</i>.</def>

<i>Burns.</i>

<h1>Curlew</h1> <Xpage=357>