CURL (3)

Curl (kûrl), n. [[Akin to D. krul, Dan. krölle. See Curl, v. ]] 1. 1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton. 2. 2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton. 3. 3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.