Definition of roll

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Roll (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane..

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Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla..
Conscription :: Conscription (n.) A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
Piecener :: Piecener (n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
Sassorolla :: Sassorolla (n.) The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.
Spitbox :: Spitball (n.) Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile..
Drollery :: Drollery (n.) A lively or comic picture.
Ball :: Ball (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
Funny :: Funny (superl.) Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
Illusion :: Illusion (n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder..
Funnelform :: Funnelform (a.) Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform..
Corollaries :: Corollaries (pl. ) of Corollar.
Gentian :: Gentian (n.) Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule..
Caryophyllaceous :: Caryophyllaceous (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.
Furdle :: Furdle (v. t.) To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
Convolution :: Convolution (n.) The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself..
File :: File (n.) A roll or list.
Scroll :: Scroll (n.) A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal..
Drollery :: Drollery (n.) Something which serves to raise mirt.
Turbinal :: Turbinal (a.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers..
Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale..
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