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  1. 1. n. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. To shape (the brim) into a curve. Source: opted
  6. 6. 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. Source: opted
  7. 7. 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. Source: opted
  8. 8. v. i. To play at the game called curling. Source: opted
  9. 9. v. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. Source: opted
  10. 10. v. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. Source: opted
  11. 11. v. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. Source: opted
  12. 12. n. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) Source: wordnet

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