A dangling curl of hair.

Originally: a lock of hair worn longer than the rest and arranged so as to hang forward over one shoulder, often being tied with a ribbon (the style…

a minute curl or undulation.

A lock of hair of a spiral or convolute form; a ringlet.

A curl or ringlet of hair. Cf. cocker, n.4

A curl (of hair); esp. a short or close curl. Obsolete.

A lock of hair hanging in a corkscrew-shaped curl. Also figurative.

A curl or ringlet of hair. Cf. cockle, n.4

A (typically artificial) ringlet or curl in a woman's hair, arranged or worn as an ornament (usually in plural); a woman's lovelock. Now literary and…

A lock of hair worn at the temples. Obsolete. rare.

A kind of curl (of the hair), worn by women about 1700. Obsolete. (Perhaps rather, according to the rhyme, confiˈdant.)

A small curl lying flat on the forehead.

A curled lock of hair on the temple.

A curl or lock of hair hanging loose upon the temple: worn in the 17th and 18th centuries.

‘A waving lock of hair’ (Jamieson).

In full cannon curl. A cylindrical and usually horizontal curl in the hair or in a wig, resembling either a cannon or the canions worn around the…

The hair that grows on an adult man's face; formerly commonly applied to that on the upper lip, now… Applied to a lady's curl hanging over the cheek…

= favourite, n. 3. Usually in plural.

A little curl or ringlet.

transferred. Something resembling a tendril of a plant: as, a slender branch of a vein; a curl or ringlet of hair. (Cf. also tendril-footed adj.…

a curl resembling a sausage; also, esp. a horizontal curl (see quots.).

(see quots.).

Originally U.S. Chiefly in plural (a) A wave or curl in a sheep's fleece; (b) an artificially waved or curled section of a person's hair.

A curl of hair, a ringlet. Cf. curl, n. 1. south-western.

In plural. Curls brushed on to the forehead in the shapes of figures of six. Cf. figure-six adj. at figure, n. compounds 2.

a small whisker; a curl at the side of a girl's face (cf. sense 4c above).