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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
curl .
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Examples
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Bind a cur's tail ne'er so straightly, yet it curleth up again. '
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866
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"And the smoke curleth up chimney, and goeth out into the air: and the air cometh up Sissot's nose-thirls, and feedeth her bodily life; and Sissot maketh seventy-seven I's to six pages of parchment."
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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è _Gulturnio_, 6. ut & _Sapone_, 7. and wipeth him with a _Towel_, 8. combeth him with a _Comb_, 9. and curleth him with a _Crisping Iron_, 10.
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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Bind a cur's tail ne'er so straightly, yet it curleth up again. "
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