1. (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

2. (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.

3. (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.

4. (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

5. (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.

6. (v. i.) 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.

7. (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.

8. (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.

9. (n.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

10. (n.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

11. (n.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

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