Index of English words, starting with "cu"

(1) - Curl (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
(2) - Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
(3) - Curl (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
(4) - Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
(5) - Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
(6) - Curl (v. i.) 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.
(7) - Curl (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
(8) - Curl (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
(9) - Curl (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
(10) - Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
(11) - Curl (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

(1) - Curler (n.) A player at the game called curling.
(2) - Curler (n.) One who, or that which, curls.

(1) - Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.