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Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.

To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. Pepys.

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. Gay. To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.

Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton.

pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. -- Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. -- Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game…

to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply. The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. Dryden. Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you. Deut. iv. 1.

Zoöl.), the hairy larvæ of several species of bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny invo…

Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.

Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.

To cower; to crouch; to curl up. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

elonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton. His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." Chapman.

To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate. Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino. Dr. H. More.

rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.