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curl
(encz) | curl,kadeř n: Zdeněk Brož |
curl
(encz) | curl,kudrlina Zdeněk Brož |
curl
(encz) | curl,kudrlinka Zdeněk Brož |
curl
(encz) | curl,kudrna n: Zdeněk Brož |
curl
(encz) | curl,lokna n: Zdeněk Brož |
curl
(encz) | curl,vlna n: Zdeněk Brož |
curl
(encz) | curl,zkadeření Zdeněk Brož |
Curl
(gcide) | 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.
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Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
--Shak.
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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.
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Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden.
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Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope.
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Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
--Byron.
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He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on
the floor. --Bret Harte.
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3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
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Curl
(gcide) | 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.
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But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
--Milton.
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3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton.
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Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
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4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
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5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
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Curl
(gcide) | 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.
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Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. --Milton.
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2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance,
as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those
numberless waves or curls which usually arise from
the sand holes. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
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Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.
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curl
(wn) | curl
n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as
formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl,
roll, curl, 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: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl,
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.]
3: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet,
whorl]
v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at
the ceiling" [syn: curl, 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, curl,
draw in]
3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: coil, loop,
curl] [ant: uncoil]
4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
[syn: curl, wave]
5: play the Scottish game of curling |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
curled
(mass) | curled
- kučeravý |
curly
(mass) | curly
- kučeravý, vlnitý |
curl up
(encz) | curl up,zkroutit v: Zdeněk Brožcurl up,zkroutit se Zdeněk Brož |
curl up with a good book
(encz) | curl up with a good book,relaxovat a číst knihu Zdeněk Brož |
curl your hair
(encz) | curl your hair,šokovat tě Zdeněk Brož |
curled
(encz) | curled,kroutil v: Zdeněk Brožcurled,vlnil v: Zdeněk Brož |
curled pondweed
(encz) | curled pondweed, n: |
curled up
(encz) | curled up, adj: |
curler
(encz) | curler,hráč ve hře curling Zdeněk Brožcurler,natáčka n: Jakub Kolčář |
curlers
(encz) | curlers,natáčky n: pl. Marek Běl |
curlew
(encz) | curlew,koliha n: Zdeněk Brož |
curlew sandpiper
(encz) | curlew sandpiper, n: |
curleyleaf pondweed
(encz) | curleyleaf pondweed, n: |
curlicue
(encz) | curlicue,kudrlinka n: Zdeněk Brož |
curliness
(encz) | curliness,kudrnatost n: Zdeněk Brož |
curling
(encz) | curling,lední metaná Zdeněk Brožcurling,metaná n: Zdeněk Brož |
curling iron
(encz) | curling iron, n: |
curling irons
(encz) | curling irons,kulma n: Zdeněk Brož |
curls
(encz) | curls,kroutí n: Zdeněk Brožcurls,lokny n: pl. Zdeněk Brožcurls,ohýbá v: Zdeněk Brožcurls,svíjí v: Zdeněk Brož |
curly
(encz) | curly,kadeřavý adj: Zdeněk Brožcurly,kučeravý adj: Zdeněk Brožcurly,kudrnatý adj: Zdeněk Brožcurly,vlnitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
curly braces
(encz) | curly braces,složené závorky pl. web |
curly bracket
(encz) | curly bracket,složená závorka n: [mat.] {} |
curly clematis
(encz) | curly clematis, n: |
curly endive
(encz) | curly endive, n: |
curly grass
(encz) | curly grass, n: |
curly grass fern
(encz) | curly grass fern, n: |
curly-coated retriever
(encz) | curly-coated retriever, n: |
curly-heads
(encz) | curly-heads, n: |
curlycue
(encz) | curlycue, |
curlycup gumweed
(encz) | curlycup gumweed, n: |
eskimo curlew
(encz) | Eskimo curlew, |
hair curler
(encz) | hair curler, n: |
kiss curl
(encz) | kiss curl, n: |
kiss curls (hair style)
(encz) | kiss curls (hair style), |
leg curl
(encz) | leg curl, n: |
leg curling
(encz) | leg curling, n: |
pin curl
(encz) | pin curl, |
pincurl clip
(encz) | pincurl clip, n: |
sausage curl
(encz) | sausage curl, n: |
spit curl
(encz) | spit curl, n: |
stone curlew
(encz) | stone curlew, n: |
uncurl
(encz) | uncurl,narovnat v: Zdeněk Brožuncurl,rozvinout v: Zdeněk Brož |
uncurled
(encz) | uncurled, adj: |
wooly blue curls
(encz) | wooly blue curls, n: |
hráč ve hře curling
(czen) | hráč ve hře curling,curler Zdeněk Brož |
Becurl
(gcide) | Becurl \Be*curl"\, v. t.
To curl; to adorn with curls.
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Blue curls
(gcide) | 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.
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Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. --Milton.
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2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance,
as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those
numberless waves or curls which usually arise from
the sand holes. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
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Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.
[1913 Webster]Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. Bluer (bl[=u]"[~e]r);
superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black,
fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a],
D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F.
bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]
1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament."
--Milton.
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2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
was blue with oaths.
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3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
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5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
as, blue laws.
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6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
bluestocking. [Colloq.]
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The ladies were very blue and well informed.
--Thackeray.
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Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.
Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
black.
Blue blood. See under Blood.
Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope
(Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger
species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.
Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod.
Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic
coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).
Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
bastard pennyroyal.
Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low
spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils,
or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.
Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.
Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
useful. See Eucalyptus.
Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
uniform.
Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.
Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
puritanical laws. [U. S.]
Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
sea, and in military operations.
Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
his official robes.
Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
the blue pill. --McElrath.
Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
Blue Monday,
(a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself
given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
(b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a
workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.
Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
one of the British signal flags.
Blue pill. (Med.)
(a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
(b) Blue mass.
Blue ribbon.
(a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
-- hence, a member of that order.
(b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These
[scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college."
--Farrar.
(c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
Army.
Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.
Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush
(Petrocossyphus cyaneas).
Blue verditer. See Verditer.
Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
printing, etc.
Blue water, the open ocean.
Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation.
[Wall Street slang.] PJC
To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.
True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
Covenanters.
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For his religion . . .
'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.
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Curl
(gcide) | 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.
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Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature.
--Shak.
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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.
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Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden.
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Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope.
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Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow.
--Byron.
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He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on
the floor. --Bret Harte.
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3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]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.
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But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
--Milton.
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3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton.
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Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
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4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
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5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
[1913 Webster]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.
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Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. --Milton.
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2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance,
as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
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If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those
numberless waves or curls which usually arise from
the sand holes. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first
appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
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Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.
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Curle
(gcide) | Curia \Cu"ri*a\ (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. Curle (-?). [L.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.)
(a) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people
were divided by Romulus.
(b) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
(c) The place where the meetings of the senate were held;
the senate house.
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2. (Middle Ages) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal
lord; also; his residence or his household. --Burrill.
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3. (Law) Any court of justice.
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4. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the
machinery of administration; -- called also {curia
Romana}.
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Curled
(gcide) | 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.
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But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
--Milton.
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3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton.
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Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
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4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
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5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
[1913 Webster]Curled \Curled\ (k[^u]rld), a.
Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple
having fibers which take a sinuous course).
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Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of
horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. --McElrath.
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curled curled up
(gcide) | coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj.
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled
longitudinally upon itself};curled, curled up;
{involute closely coiled so that the axis is
obscured)}; looped, whorled; twined, twisted;
convoluted; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; wound]
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Curled hair
(gcide) | Curled \Curled\ (k[^u]rld), a.
Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple
having fibers which take a sinuous course).
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Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of
horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. --McElrath.
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Curled maple
(gcide) | Maple \Ma"ple\ (m[=a]"p'l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol;
akin to Icel. m["o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G.
massholder.] (Bot.)
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species.
Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple,
from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in
great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or {swamp
maple} is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, {Acer
dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the {striped
maple}, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The
common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the {sycamore
maple} is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is
Acer platanoides.
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Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
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Bird's-eye maple, Curled maple, varieties of the wood of
the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is
produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
Maple honey, Maple molasses, Maple syrup, or {Maple
sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
Maple sugar, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
by evaporation.
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Curledness
(gcide) | Curledness \Curl"ed*ness\, n.
State of being curled; curliness.
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Curler
(gcide) | Curler \Curl"er\ (k[^u]rl"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, curls.
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2. A player at the game called curling. --Burns.
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3. A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping
attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce
curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of
curlers.
[PJC]
4. an electrical appliance with a handle and a metal
rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is
wound, to produce curls in the hair; -- called also
curling iron.
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Curlew
(gcide) | Curlew \Cur"lew\ (k[^u]r"l[=u]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu,
courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus
courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zool.)
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its
long, slender, curved bill.
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Note: The common European curlew is Numenius arquatus. The
long-billed (Numenius longirostris), the Hudsonian
(Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew
(Numenius borealis, are American species. The name is
said to imitate the note of the European species.
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Curlew Jack (Zool.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew.
Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea
or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in
America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved
bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
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Curlew Jack
(gcide) | Curlew \Cur"lew\ (k[^u]r"l[=u]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu,
courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus
courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zool.)
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its
long, slender, curved bill.
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Note: The common European curlew is Numenius arquatus. The
long-billed (Numenius longirostris), the Hudsonian
(Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew
(Numenius borealis, are American species. The name is
said to imitate the note of the European species.
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Curlew Jack (Zool.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew.
Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea
or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in
America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved
bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
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Curlew sandpiper
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
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Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
[1913 Webster]Curlew \Cur"lew\ (k[^u]r"l[=u]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu,
courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus
courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zool.)
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its
long, slender, curved bill.
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Note: The common European curlew is Numenius arquatus. The
long-billed (Numenius longirostris), the Hudsonian
(Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew
(Numenius borealis, are American species. The name is
said to imitate the note of the European species.
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Curlew Jack (Zool.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew.
Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea
or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in
America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved
bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
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curlicue
(gcide) | curlicue \curl"i*cue\ (k?rl"?-k?), n. [Cf. F. caracole.]
Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on
paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome
caper. [Sometimes written curlycue or carlicue.] [
Colloq. U.S.]
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Curliness
(gcide) | Curliness \Curl"i*ness\ (k?rl"?-n?s), n.
State of being curly.
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Curling
(gcide) | 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.
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But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
--Cascoigne.
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2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
--Milton.
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3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
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Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMeg[ae]ra. --Milton.
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Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert.
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4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
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Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. --Dryden.
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5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
[1913 Webster]Curling \Curl"ing\, n.
1. The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of
smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the
act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the
brim of hats.
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2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron
are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
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Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and
played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to
another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a
hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at
top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as
near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his
partner, which has been well laid before, or to
strike off that of his antagonist. --Pennant
(Tour in
Scotland.
1772).
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Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling
the hair; -- commonly heated when used. Called also
curler[4].
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Curling irons
(gcide) | Curling \Curl"ing\, n.
1. The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of
smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the
act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the
brim of hats.
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2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron
are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
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Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and
played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to
another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a
hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at
top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as
near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his
partner, which has been well laid before, or to
strike off that of his antagonist. --Pennant
(Tour in
Scotland.
1772).
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Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling
the hair; -- commonly heated when used. Called also
curler[4].
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Curling tong
(gcide) | Curling \Curl"ing\, n.
1. The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of
smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the
act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the
brim of hats.
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2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron
are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
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Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and
played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to
another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a
hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at
top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as
near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his
partner, which has been well laid before, or to
strike off that of his antagonist. --Pennant
(Tour in
Scotland.
1772).
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Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling
the hair; -- commonly heated when used. Called also
curler[4].
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Curlingly
(gcide) | Curlingly \Curl"ing*ly\, adv.
With a curl, or curls.
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