Word Meanings - UNCURL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.

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• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• CURLY
  Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• CURLEW
  A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. Note: The common European curlew is N. arquatus. The long-billed (N. longirostris), the Hudsonian , and the Eskimo curlew (N. borealis, are American species. The
• CURL
  To shape into a curve. (more info) 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne. 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many
• STRAIGHTEN
  1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• CURLINESS
  State of being curly.
• CURLER
  1. One who, or that which, curls. 2. A player at the game called curling. Burns.
• CURLED
  Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course). Curled hair , the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• CURLYCUE
  Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• CURLING
  1. The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats. 2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or
• ANGRY
  1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor. 2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore. 3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling
• CURLINGLY
  With a curl, or curls.
• CURLEDNESS
  State of being curled; curliness.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• UNCURL
  To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• SPIT CURL
  A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance.
• BECURL
  To curl; to adorn with curls.