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Bible Dictionaries
Curl
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
(2):
(n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
(3):
(n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
(4):
(n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
(7):
(v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
(8):
(v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
(9):
(v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
(10):
(n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
(11):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Curl'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/curl.html. 1828.
