Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
--Shak.
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. --Dryden.
Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope.
Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
--Byron.
He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on
the floor. --Bret Harte.
3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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. --Milton.
3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMeg[ae]ra.
--Milton.
Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl
the waves. --Dryden.
5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either
cheek played. --Milton.
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. --Sir I.
Newton.
3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
{Blue curls}. (Bot.) See under {Blue}.