• 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 raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. • 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.