a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
a strand or cluster of hair
shape one's body into a curl
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
wind around something in coils or loops
play the Scottish game of curling
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.
