Noun

• S: (n) coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll (a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals))
• S: (n) Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933))
• instance
• S: (n) lock, curl, ringlet, whorl (a strand or cluster of hair)

Verb

• S: (v) curl, curve, kink (form a curl, curve, or kink) "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
• S: (v) curl up, curl, draw in (shape one's body into a curl) "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
• S: (v) coil, loop, curl (wind around something in coils or loops)
• S: (v) curl, wave (twist or roll into coils or ringlets) "curl my hair, please"
• S: (v) curl (play the Scottish game of curling)