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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Curl \Curl\, v. i.
   1. 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.

            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.]

Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curled} (k[^u]rld);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Curling}.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan.
   kr["o]lle, 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.
                                                  --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.

Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), n. [Akin to D. krul, Dan. kr["o]lle. 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.                         --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}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

curl
     n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles [syn:
           {coil}, {whorl}, {roll}, {curlicue}, {ringlet}, {gyre},
           {scroll}]
     2: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto
        discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry
        (born in 1933) [syn: {Robert Curl}, {Robert F. Curl}, {Robert
        Floyd Curl Jr.}]
     3: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: {lock}, {ringlet}, {whorl}]

curl
     v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at
          the ceiling" [syn: {curve}, {kink}]
     2: shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under
        the covers"; "She fell and drew in" [syn: {curl up}, {draw
        in}]
     3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: {coil}, {loop}]
        [ant: {uncoil}]
     4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
        [syn: {wave}]
     5: play the Scottish game of curling