Bible Dictionaries
Curl

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Curl'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/curl.html. 1828.