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curled, ppl. a.
(kɜːld, poet. ˈkɜːlɪd)
Forms: α. 4 crollid, 5 crulled, 6 crouled; β. 5 curlyd, 6 corlde, 6–7 curld, 6– curled.
[f. curl v. and n. + -ed. (No other part of the vb. is found so early.)]
1. Formed into curls or ringlets, as hair.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1354 Þat other wyþ þe crollid her..þat ys Berard. c1440Promp. Parv. 111 Curlyd, as here, crispus. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. viii. 39/1 They be paynted with crulled here. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 23 The heare of theyr heades is merueylouslye corlde. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 14 Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 88 So curled hair is generally regarded among us as a beauty. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 296 The wool..short and somewhat curled.
2. Having or adorned with curls or ringlets; curly. Also fig.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. viii. 7 Her curled head. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. ii. 68 The wealthy curled Deareling of our Nation. 1692O. Walker Greek & Rom. Hist. Illustr. 291 He was not so curled, nor so flat nosed. 1791Cowper Odyss. xix. 307 His visage swarthy, curl'd His poll. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Nature Wks. (Bohn) I. 229 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace.
3. a. Bent into or towards a spiral form; disposed in more or less spiral convolutions.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 109 The knobbes [of the maple]..hath the fairer and the more courled graine. 1611Heywood Gold. Age i. Wks. 1874 III. 5 Made Neptunes Trident calme the curled waues. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. iv. 72 The pedicels of these glands were spirally curled. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. viii, Old men..lay with curled-up limbs, shaking with cold.
b. Of leaves: Having a much waved edge or surface. transf. Of plants: Having curled leaves.
1626Bacon Sylva §651 Plants that have curled Leaves, do all abound with moisture. 1796Withering Brit. Plants III. 360 Leaves slender, curled. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 261 A variety of this herb..called Curled Tansy. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 924 The Savoy with its curled blistered leaves. Mod. A row of Curled Parsley.
c. Of wood: having a wavy or curly grain. Chiefly in curled maple (see maple 2).
1778in Pennsylvania Archives (1907) 6th Ser. XII. 860 A Curl'd maple Teatable. 1813H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plants 84 (Alnus undulata or crispata) Waved alder or curled alder. 1855Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VI. 528 Much of this [maple] timber is curled and some bird's-eyed. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVII. 664/2 The most constant use of curled maple is for the stocks of fowling-pieces and rifles.
4. Of potatoes: Affected with curl (n. 4).
1788Trans. Soc. Encourag. Arts VI. p. xiii, That disease in Potatoes, called the curled Potatoe. 1796Hull Advertiser 3 Sept. 2/2 That fatal disease so incident to..the Potatoe, known by the appellation of the ‘Curled Top’. 1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VI. i. 164 Curled potatoes ripen early, some weeks before the healthy plants.
5. Comb., as curled-horned adj.; † curled-head, † curled-pate adjs., curly-headed.
1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 160 Make curld' pate Ruffians bald. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 380 The curl'd head Greeks. 1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 193 Fine curled-horned and long-tailed ewes.
Hence ˈcurledness, curled state or quality.
1530Palsgr. 211/2 Curlydnesse of ones heer, crespure. 1615Crooke Body of Man 68 The haires..do vary in..length and shortnesse, streightnesse and curlednesse. |