Definition of roll

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Roll (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching..

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Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..
Rolling :: Rolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rol.
Controllable :: Controllable (a.) Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command..
Controlment :: Controlment (n.) The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.
Registry :: Registry (n.) The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.
Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.
Rollicked :: Rollicked (imp. & p. p.) of Rolli.
Perianth :: Perianth (n.) The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished..
Verderor :: Verderor (n.) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses..
Paracorolla :: Paracorolla (n.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus..
Laborsome :: Laborsome (a.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor..
Rouly-pouly :: Rouly-pouly (n.) See Rolly-pooly.
Volvox :: Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule..
Lawless :: Lawless (a.) Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
Marver :: Marver (n.) A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape..
Cassideous :: Cassideous (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite..
Drollish :: Drollish (a.) Somewhat droll.
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies..
Disinvolve :: Disinvolve (v. t.) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
Fluctuate :: Fluctuate (v. i.) To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air..
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