1. curl - Noun
2. curl - Verb
4. Curl - Proper noun
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
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.
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
To play at the game called curling.
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. Marilyn Monroe
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. John von Neumann
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. Augusten Burroughs
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. Robert Frost
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. Thomas Henry Huxley