curl

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A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
(quote-text)she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.
{{quote-book|en|year=1910|author=Emerson Hough
(RQ:Allingham China Governess). He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
A curved stroke or shape.
{{quote-text|en|year=1995|author=John Curtis; Julian Reade; Dominique Collon|title=Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum|page=184
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
{{quote-book|en|year=1909|author=Harold Horsfall Hilton|title=The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=fZ0XAAAAYAAJ|page=38
Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", ''Men's Health'', page 54:

Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.

The field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
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The vector operator, denoted \rm{curl}\; or \vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}, that generates this field.
Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to up; often specifically the curl.
The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.

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A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
To cause to move in a curve.
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To make into a curl or spiral.
To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
To move in curves.
To take part in the sport of curling.
To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
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(RQ:Christie Autobiography).
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
{{quote-journal|en|year=1633|author=George Herbert|journal=Jordan
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
{{RQ:Dryden Fables|The Flower and the Leaf
To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.