v. t. | 1. | To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. |
| 2. | To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. |
| 3. | To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. |
| 4. | To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. |
| 5. | (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve. |
v. i. | 1. | 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. |
| 2. | To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. |
| 3. | To play at the game called curling. |
n. | 1. | A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. |
| 2. | An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. |
| 3. | A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. |