A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops.
To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.
The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.