Definition of curl

• 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.