Word Meaning

curl definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for curl

- Coil of hair
- Form into ringlets
- Lock
- Lock of hair
- Loop
- Mongrel left spiral of hair
- Move in a curve
- Ringlet