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The curling crest of a wave.

A long, curling wave.

ve a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk. The hour for curling and craping the hair. Mad. D'Arblay.

enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's…

To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. [R.] Wiseman.

urns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning.…

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. Bacon.

One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

Curly; curled. [Obs.]

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [Obs.] Hakewill.

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number. His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton. On either side . . . was there the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).

Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.