<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair</li><li>to form into a spiral or curved shape; coil</li><li>to adorn with, or as with, curls or ringlets</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to grow in or form curls or ringlets, as the hair</li><li>to become curved or undulated</li><li>to coil</li><li>to play at the game of curling</li><li>to progress in a curving direction or path; move in a curving or spiraling way: The ball curled toward the plate.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a coil or ringlet of hair</li><li>anything of a spiral or curved shape, as a lettuce leaf, wood shaving, etc.</li><li>a coil</li><li>the act of curling or state of being curled</li><li>Plant Pathology: the distortion, fluting, or puffing of a leaf, resulting from the unequal development of its two sides</li><li>a disease so characterized</li><li>Also called rotation</li><li>Mathematics: a vector obtained from a given vector by taking its cross product with the vector whose coordinates are the partial derivative operators with respect to each coordinate</li><li>the operation that produces this vector</li><li>Weightlifting: an underhand forearm lift in which the barbell, held against the thighs, is raised to the chest and then lowered while keeping the legs, upper arms, and shoulders taut</li><li>a similar forearm lift using a dumbbell or dumbbells, usually from the side of the body to the shoulders</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to sit or lie down cozily: to curl up with a good book.</li></ul>