When the looms revolve that make him, there is produced a gleaming black skin, kinky black hair, squat wide-nostriled nose, thick protruding lips, large striking teeth, prominent jaws, and staring eyes.

Her eyes were a little more wrinkled, her kinky hair was thinner and very gray.

Some were in Mother-Hubbards; one had her hair half combed, one side in a kinky mattress, the other lying flat and greased down to her scalp.

The old man shook his white, kinky head.

She banged the vessels, slammed the stove-eyes on and off, flung the stove-wood about, and kept up a snarling animadversion upon every topic that drifted through her kinky head.

She came to a stand in the doorway, with her kinky gray head swung around, half puzzled, wholly rebellious.

A straw sombrero, artistic in spite of being broken, covered an enormous head and allowed his dirty gray, almost red, hair to straggle out long and kinky at the end like a poet's curls.

capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims &c n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky [U.S.], particular, humorsome^, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable &c 83; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle &c (irresolute) 605; frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

The big negro, with the chest and head of a gorilla, tossed his kinky white curls so violently that the ringlets danced.

"Listen to this 'ad': "'Kinky, curly hair made straight by one application of our specific.

" He shook open the paper, which he had retained in his hand, and read from one of the advertisements: "'Kinky, curly hair made straight in two applications.

He was about three and a half feet highcoal-black, with a tarboosh worn at an angle on his kinky hair and a flashing white grin across his snub-nosed face that would have made an archangel count the change out of two piastres twice.

So soon as he has completed his 'gang' he dresses them up in good clothes, makes them comb their kinky heads into some appearance of neatness, rubs oil on their dusky faces to give them a sleek healthy color, gives them a dram occasionally to make them sprightly, and teaches each one the part he or she has to play; and then he sets out for the extreme South....

The subject of this sketch is a pure blooded Negro, whose kinky hair is now white, likewise his scraggy beard.

she called, as she spied a kinky white head bobbing around in the barnyard.

His dress was immaculate; his hair was not so kinky that it couldn't be plastered down with brilliantine, and he perfumed himself copiously.

Had Baldy been a French Poodle, with little tufts of hair cut in circles round his ankles, and a kinky lock tied with a splashing bow over his eyes, he would probably, with delicate disdain, have thought of her as lacking in "esprit de corps."

He so terrified Horatio, our portly bull-dog, by pecking at his sensitive kinky tail from behind when he was absent-mindedly lapping water from Daisy's bath, that he never again ventured alone on to the lawn.

She is a tall gaunt black Negro with white hair about one inch long and very kinky, and still she dresses as the older slave woman dressed in the past days.

His general coloring is blackish-brown with white kinky hair.

"Old Granny used to sing a song to us what went lak dis: 'Kinky head, whar-fore you skeered? Old snake crawled off, 'cause he's afeared.

My pappy had Injun blood, too, but his hair was kinky.

Her hair is inclined to be curly rather than kinky.

He is slightly bent; his kinky hair is intermingled white and gray; and his broad mouth boasts only one visible tooth, a particularly large one in the extreme center of his lower gum.

Community and religious activities: none. 9. Description of informant: Small, emaciated, slightly graying, very thin kinky hair, tightly braided in small pigtails.