Definition of roll

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Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

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Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..
Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense..
Registration :: Registration (v.) The act of registering; registry; enrollment.
Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward spirally.
Roll :: Roll (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
Bohemian :: Bohemian (n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels..
Goggle-eyed :: Goggle-eyed (a.) Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
Drollery :: Drollery (n.) Something which serves to raise mirt.
Disenroll :: Disenroll (v. i.) To erase from a roll or list.
Drollist :: Drollist (n.) A droll.
Cyclostyle :: Cyclostyle (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller..
Train :: Train (v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train..
Cucullated :: Cucullated (a.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet..
Troll :: Troll (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch..
Unroll :: Unroll (v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner..
Roll :: Roll (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves..
Beam :: Beam (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam..
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