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CURLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("curling" is a kind of...):
game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)
Domain region:
Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)
Derivation:
curl (play the Scottish game of curling)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of hair) making curls or having been made to curl
Synonyms:
curled; curling
Classified under:
Similar:
curly ((of hair) having curls or waves)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb curl
Context examples:
She wore a great hat with a white curling ostrich feather, and from under its brim her two bold, black eyes stared out with a look of anger and defiance as if to tell the folk that she thought less of them than they could do of her.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Also I saw a great wave, curling and foaming, poised far above the rail.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When she was quite herself again, and was curling Jip's ears, as he lay upon her lap, I became grave, and said: My own! May I mention something?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the rapid glance Alleyne saw that he had white doeskin gloves, a curling white feather in his flat velvet cap, and a broad gold, embroidered baldric across his bosom.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And soon came a gale of wind, and carried away Curdken’s hat, and away went Curdken after it, while the girl went on combing and curling her hair.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I suppose, now, said Miss Ingram, curling her lip sarcastically, we shall have an abstract of the memoirs of all the governesses extant: in order to avert such a visitation, I again move the introduction of a new topic.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
