Noun
a strand or cluster of hair

Noun
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

Noun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles

Verb
form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"

Verb
play the Scottish game of curling

Verb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"

Verb
wind around something in coils or loops

Verb
shape one''s body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"

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

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

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

n.
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

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

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.

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.

v. i.
To play at the game called curling.

v.
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

v.
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

v.
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

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Curl

Curl (k?rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curled (k?rld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curling.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan. krlle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. Curl, n., Cruller.] 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.

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

Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.

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

Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMeg'91ra.

Curling with metaphors a plain intention.

4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves.

5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.

Curl

Curl, v. i. 1. To contract or bend into curis 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.

Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.

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. "Cirling billows." Dryden.

Then round her slender waist he curled.

Curling smokes from village tops are seen.

Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.

He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor.

3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]

Curl

Curl (k?rl), n. [Akin to D. krul, Dan. krlle. See Curl, v. ] 1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played.

2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes.

3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

To contract or bend into curis 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.

A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.