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Curl

  1. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
  2. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
  3. To play at the game called curling.
  4. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
  5. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
  6. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
  7. 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.
  8. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
  9. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
  10. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
  11. To shape (the brim) into a curve.

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