Word Meanings - CURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To shape into a curve. (more info) 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne. 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many
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To shape into a curve. (more info) 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne. 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton. 3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMegæra. Milton. Curling with metaphors a plain intention. Herbert. 4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. Dryden.
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- SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - SERPENTARIUS
A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus. - SERPENTRY
1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents. - SERPENTINOUS
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - CRISPER
One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla. - SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner. - TRAINING
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training - CURLY
Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled. - SERPENTARIA
The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot - TRAINABLE
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson. - CURVE
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. - BRAID
and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring - TWISTING
a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7. - SERPENTIFORM
Having the form of a serpent. - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - CRISPATURE
The state of being crispate. - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - TWISTER
A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - GOLDYLOCKS
A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - UNTWIST
1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton. - INTERTWIST
To twist together one with another; to intertwine. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - UPTRAIN
To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser. - CORRIDOR TRAIN
A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.