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with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. "Knotted curls." Drayton. As tight as I could knot the noose. Tennyson.

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.

A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.

fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica). Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.

The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap.

Small pinchers for curling the hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

sons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

The stone curlew.

a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of long, curly, white feathers on each side of the throat. It is often kept as a cage bird.

n plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.

A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.

To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle. thin winding breath which purled up to the sky. Shak.

Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.

A curl; especially, a curl of hair. [Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved. Milton.

The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.

The curlew.

A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. -- Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.

A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.