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The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

With a curl, or curls.

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]

Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

The curling crest of a wave.

A long, curling wave.

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…

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

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

, or as with, curls; to ornament. Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMegæra. Milton. Curling with metaphors a plain intention. Herbert.

A player at the game called curling. Burns.

Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

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

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.

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

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.