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curl(2)(dictionary)
curl(encyclopedia)
Curl - Curling(gambling)
curl 1, verb(dictionary)
curl 2, noun(dictionary)

curl(1) (iou)



curl noun. L16.
[from the verb.]
1. A lock of hair of a spiral or coiled form. L16.
MONTAGUE curl.
Shakespeare Hamlet Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself.
b. The state (of hair) of being curled. M19.
in curl (of hair) curled. out of curl (of hair) having become straight (go out of curl fig., lose one's drive or energy).
2. Anything of a spiral or incurved shape; a coil. E17.
E. Bowen The steamer's smoke hung in curls on the clear air.
3. A ripple or wave on water. M17.
b. The curved top of a wave about to break. M20.
P. O'Brian He saw the vast breaking wave with the Waakzaamheid broadside on in its curl.
4. The action or an act of curling, esp. by a cricket ball or a bowler. L18.
curl of the lip a curving of the upper lip, expressive of scorn or disgust.
5. A disease of plants in which the shoots or leaves are curled up and imperfectly developed. L18.
6. Math. The vector product of the operator (see DEL) and any given vector. L19.
Comb.: curl-paper a piece of paper with which hair is twisted into a curl; curl-pate arch. (a person with) a curly head; curl-pated adjective (arch.) curly-haired.
curlless [-l-l-] adjective M19.