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Hairdo equipment - closing grunt
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curling
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Word definitions for curling in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
game played with stones on ice, 1610s, from present participle of curl (v.). "The name appears to describe the motion given to the stone" [OED]. A description of a similar game is attested from Flanders c.1600.
Usage examples of curling.
Much of the ejecta curtain was curling into orbit in what would become the smothering ashfall of days to come.
The Babinski reflex - the great toe pulling up instead of curling down - was a grave, grave sign that her cerebral cortex, the thinking part of her brain, was no longer influencing the movements of her body.
Kayak Bill, who had once seen a tidal wave on Bering Sea, pictured it advancing in the grey unnatural night from the far reaches of the ocean, growing larger and larger as it neared the shallows off Kon Klayu, and then, tossing its dancing crest to the sky in gigantic abandon, curling down from aloft in green-white, crushing splendor and flinging itself far over the beachline in its endeavor to encompass them all.
They turned away from the bodies curling up in the flames, from the bloody flesh blackening and cracking, and they vomited into the snow.
The vault door was open, and there in the moonlight stood Bluebeard, exactly as he was represented in the picture, in his yeomanry dress, his face frightfully pale, and his great blue beard curling over his chest, as awful as Mr.
With the bluewings curling up to the sky, it was an almost spiritual moment.
Ann and Nadia and Simon took rover Three and drove back down Chasma Borealis and around to the west, where one of the glaciers curling away from the cap thinned to a perfect rampway.
The largest chair in the room was a vast fan-backed affair with wide curling arms containing pockets for magazines and a tumbler, a relic of colonial glory designed for chotapegs and gracious tropical verandas.
Brandon ladled some into a metal mug, cinnamony steam curling from the rim.
Joelle gets him sprinting, a three-meter lateral burst as he avoids the first few sets of hands and the beefy curling lips and but is just about to get personally contacted and knocked out of his cleats by the Delaware strong safety flying in on a slant from way outside when the tiny .
It was quiet in the store, the street outside empty of traffic, the late afternoon heat curling the leaves on the pink coneflowers lining her walk.
Kalends of November, he consulted the chief pilot again and put the fleet snugly into harbor within the curling palm of the Cydonian peninsula, where it could not be seen from Lesbos.
I will be as good a housewife and dairywoman, stir about as briskly, and sing as merrily, as Peggy Curling.
It eyed the mage warily, curling back its lips and hissing as Eldrich approached.
By accident or by design, slender, curling threads of hair had escaped the loose chignon and gently brushed her forehead, her cheeks, and shimmered in the gaslighted room.