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Curl   /kərl/   Listen
Curl

noun
1.
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals).  Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl.
2.
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933).  Synonyms: Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr..
3.
A strand or cluster of hair.  Synonyms: lock, ringlet, whorl.
verb
(past & past part. curled; pres. part. curling)
1.
Form a curl, curve, or kink.  Synonyms: curve, kink.
2.
Shape one's body into a curl.  Synonyms: curl up, draw in.  "She fell and drew in"
3.
Wind around something in coils or loops.  Synonyms: coil, loop.
4.
Twist or roll into coils or ringlets.  Synonym: wave.
5.
Play the Scottish game of curling.



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"Curl" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was proud to know that the handsomest girl in the neighborhood was now his. It was rare for a sarcastic curl to leave his lips and the furrow to be smoothed on his brow. Such a rare occasion was the present. And the Broom-Squire had indeed secured one in ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... we couldn't do that now," he said. "Suppose we tied a piece of wood to the end of this rope of sheets, so that it would float, the current would curl it around the corner of the house so that I could get hold of it from the boat. If your end of the line was made fast up here, I could hand over hand the boat right under your window, the way you say. Why, I could get you out without any trouble ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
... but made no further protest. To think of Darsie chuckling in secret was not agreeable, but it was as nothing compared with the humiliation of meeting Dan's grave stare, and seeing the curl of his lip at the repetition of her high-sounding phrase. As the quickest way of changing the conversation she suggested an adjournment to the morning-room, where mother sat busy over the eternal mending- basket, to broach the ...
— A College Girl • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... French descent. And she was beautiful! Wingrave regarded her critically and realized, perhaps for the first time, how beautiful. Her eyes were large and clear, and her eyebrows delicately defined. Her mouth, with its slightly humorous curl, was a little large, but wholly delightful. The sun of the last few weeks had given to her skin a faint, but most becoming, duskiness. Under his close scrutiny, a flush of color stole into her cheeks. She ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... of a panic is like the beginning of a fire: first a curl of smoke licking through a closed sash, then a rush of flame, and then a roar freighted with death. Its subduing is along similar lines: A sharp command clearing the way, concentrated effort, ...
— A List To Starboard - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith


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