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unˈcurled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, or f. prec.]
1. Of hair: Not formed into, or growing in, curls or ringlets; out of curl.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vii. 40 His faire lockes..He let to grow and griesly to concrew, Vncomb'd, vncurl'd, and carelesly vnshed. 1611L. Barry Ram Alley ii. i, Thy head, Which is with greasy hair orespred, And being vncurld and black as cole [etc.]. 1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal xi. (1697) 291 Two home-bred Youths..With honest Faces, tho' with uncurl'd Hair. 1712–4Pope Rape Lock v. 26 Curl'd or uncurl'd, since Locks will turn to gray. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 72 Their black hair, long and uncurled. 1828Scott Tapestr. Chamb. ⁋25 His hair..was dishevelled, uncurled, void of powder, and dank with dew. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, His forehead shaded with short thick hair, uncurled, but black..as the wings of a raven.
b. Not adorned with curls or ringlets.
1799in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. III. 322 Leave me uncurl'd, undinner'd, here to mourn.
2. Not disposed in coils or spiral convolutions; also, relaxed from a spiral form.
1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon iii. 1 The adder is not always seen uncurl'd. 1708Pope Ode St. Cecilia's Day iv, The Furies sink upon their iron beds, And snakes uncurl'd hang list'ning round their heads. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 46 A serpent's plashy neck; its barbed tongue Squeez'd from the gorge, and all its uncurl'd length Dead. 1841T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. 259 When not in use, the proboscis is coiled up..; but when uncurled, its structure is readily examined. |