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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Toter :: Toter (n.) The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone..
Trowl :: Trowl (n.) See Troll.
Circumvolve :: Circumvolve (v. i.) To roll round; to revolve.
Volutation :: Volutation (n.) A rolling of a body; a wallowing.
Truckle :: Truckle (v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle..
Shell :: Shell (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Tetrapetalous :: Tetrapetalous (a.) Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla..
Matriculate :: Matriculate (v. i.) To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college..
Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning..
Torrent :: Torrent (n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
Homography :: Homography (n.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic..
Droll :: Droll (superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange..
Caryophyllaceous :: Caryophyllaceous (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.
Fascia :: Fascia (n.) A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller..
Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form..
Cassideous :: Cassideous (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Convolve :: Convolve (v. t.) To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.
Mangle :: Mangle (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure..
Mill :: Mill (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper..
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