[kurl] 
| 1. | to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair. |
| 2. | to form into a spiral or curved shape; coil. |
| 3. | to adorn with, or as with, curls or ringlets. |
| 4. | to grow in or form curls or ringlets, as the hair. |
| 5. | to become curved or undulated. |
| 6. | to coil. |
| 7. | to play at the game of curling. |
| 8. | to progress in a curving direction or path; move in a curving or spiraling way: The ball curled toward the plate. |
| 9. | a coil or ringlet of hair. |
| 10. | anything of a spiral or curved shape, as a lettuce leaf, wood shaving, etc. |
| 11. | a coil. |
| 12. | the act of curling or state of being curled. |
| 13. | Plant Pathology.
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| 14. | Also called rotation. Mathematics.
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| 15. | Weightlifting.
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| 16. | curl up, to sit or lie down cozily: to curl up with a good book. |
| 17. | curl one's lip, to assume or display an expression of contempt: He curled his lip in disdain. |
| 18. | curl one's or the hair, to fill with horror or fright; shock: Some of his stories about sailing across the Atlantic are enough to curl one's hair. |
[kur-lid-lee, kurld-] , adverb