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

To writhe; to twist; to coil; as a serpent.

To dress with curls. The snaky locks that curled Megaera.

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools, without the brushing air to curl the waves.

To bend in contraction; to shrink into ringlets.

To rise in waves or undulation; to ripple; and particularly, to roll over at the summit; as a curling wave.

To rise in a winding current, and to roll over at the ends; as curling smoke.

To writhe; to twist itself. Then round her slender waist he curled.

To shrink; to shrink back; to bend and sink. He curled down into a corner.

A ringlet of hair, or any thing of a like form.

Undulation; a waving; sinuosity; flexure.

A winding int he grain of wood.