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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burled p. pr. & vb. n. Burling. ] [ OE. burle stuffing, or a knot in cloth; cf. F. bourlet, bourrelet, OF. bourel, a wreath or a roll of cloth, linen, or leather, stuffed with flocks, etc., dim. of bourre. √92. See Bur. ] To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burling iron, a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [ Written also burlaps. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having an irregular pattern from the grain of a tree burl{ 2 }, or one resembling such a pattern, in contrast to the regular wood grain consisting of parallel or concentric lines; -- of wood. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who burls or dresses cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. burlesque, fr. It. burlesco, fr. burla jest, mockery, perh. for burrula, dim. of L. burrae trifles. See Bur. ] Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dull burlesque appeared with impudence,
And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute? Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Burlesqued p. pr. & vb. n. Burlesquing ] To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. [ 1913 Webster ]

They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To employ burlesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who burlesques. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., dim. of burla mockery. See Burlesque, a. ] (Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being burly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. Bower. ] 1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. “Burly sacks.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [ he was ] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man, husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles (orig., man, male), and perh. to Skr. jāra lover. Cf. Carl, Charles's Wain. ] 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. “A peasant or churl.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. [ 1913 Webster ]

A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Churlish; rough; selfish. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. “Churlish benefits.” Ld. Burleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a churlish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Curled p. pr. & vb. n. Curling. ] [ Akin to D. krullen, Dan. krölle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. Curl, n., Cruller. ] 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of his tortuous train,
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thicker than the snaky locks
That curledMegæra. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curling with metaphors a plain intention. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seas would be pools without the brushing air
To curl the waves. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou seest it [ hair ] will not curl by nature. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. “Cirling billows.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then round her slender waist he curled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To play at the game called curling. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to D. krul, Dan. krölle. See Curl, v. ] 1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under a coronet, his flowing hair
In curls on either cheek played. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course). [ 1913 Webster ]

Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being curled; curliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, curls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A player at the game called curling. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of curlers. [ PJC ]

4. an electrical appliance with a handle and a metal rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is wound, to produce curls in the hair; -- called also curling iron. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. courlieu, corlieu, courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus courier; L. currere to run + levis light. ] (Zool.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common European curlew is Numenius arquatus. The long-billed (Numenius longirostris), the Hudsonian (Numenius Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis, are American species. The name is said to imitate the note of the European species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curlew Jack (Zool.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew. --
Curlew sandpiper (Zool.), a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. caracole. ] 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. [ Sometimes written curlycue or carlicue. ] [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being curly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772). [ 1913 Webster ]

Curling irons,
Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used. Called also curler{ 4 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With a curl, or curls. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. caracole. ] 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. Same as curlicue. [ Sometimes written carlicue. ] [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. [ 1913 Webster ]

I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a shrubby clematis (Clematis ochreleuca) of eastern US having curly foliage.
Syn. -- Clematis ochreleuca. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as flavorless. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- bland, flat, flavorless, insipid, savorless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One of four children born at the same time; a quadruplet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crystallog.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Furled p. pr. & vb. n. Furling. ] [ Contr. fr. furdle, fr. fardel bundle: cf. F. ferler to furl, OF. fardeler to pack. See Furdle, Fardel, and cf. Farl. ] To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ p. p. of furl. ] rolled up and secured; as, furled sails bound securely to the spar; a furled flag.
Syn. -- rolled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. furlong, furlang, AS. furlang, furlung, prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow, and Long, a. ] A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. D. verlof, fr. a prefix akin to E. for + the root of E. lief, and akin to Dan. forlov, Sw. förlof, G. verlaub permission. See Life, a. ] (Mil.) Leave of absence; especially, leave given to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Furloughed p. pr. & vb. n. Furloughing. ] (Mil.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an officer or soldier.

n. A young person of either sex. See Girl. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Masonry) A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Done or happening at intervals of half an hour. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Every hour; frequently; continually. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great was their strife, which hourly was renewed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hourly expectation of a martyrdom. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hurled p. pr. & vb. n. Hurling. ] [ OE. hurlen, hourlen; prob. contracted fr. OE. hurtlen to hurtle, or probably akin to E. whirl. √16. See Hurtle. ] 1. To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. [ 1913 Webster ]

And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. Whirl. ] To twist or turn. “Hurled or crooked feet.” [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To hurl one's self; to go quickly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another). [ 1913 Webster ]

God shall hurl at him and not spare. Job xxvii. 22 (Rev. Ver. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To play the game of hurling. See Hurling. [ 1913 Webster ]