Word: curl
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...slang : "Cork," - flunk; "Tip a curl" - make a dead rush; "Take a calico ticket," - devote too much attention to snab; "On Dike," - quite the dear George...
that dampen the curl on your brow...
Where hideous waves creep up and round it curl...
...Young Ladies of C - Street.O teeth of pearl, 'twixt lips that curl...
...while the flowing bowl - especially if it contain water for purposes of ablution - is spurned with magnificent consistency. The contents of his fingernails would give interesting and engrossing employment for a couple of days to the average chemist. His hair, if it chance to be curly, is allowed to curl unchecked over his manly brow; if nature has made it straight, it wanders forlornly about in every direction until some compassionate barber, who is moderate in his charges, mows it down with unsparing shear. From these indications his general appearance may be imagined...