Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about..

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls..

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well..

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls..

Roll :: Roll (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves..

Roll :: Roll (v.) That which rolls; a roller.

Roll :: Roll (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

Roll :: Roll (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls..

Roll :: Roll (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll..

Roll :: Roll (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

Roll :: Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself..

Roll :: 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..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder..

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

Roll :: Roll (v.) Part; office; duty; role.

Rollable :: Rollable (a.) Capable of being rolled.

Rolled :: Rolled (imp. & p. p.) of Rol.

Roller :: Roller (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery..

Roller :: Roller (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc..

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