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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Vernation :: Vernation (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation..
Governing :: Governing (a.) Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state..
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..
Dependent :: Dependent (n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.
Controller :: Controller (n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs..
Stroll :: Stroll (v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
Harlequin :: Harlequin (n. i.) To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
Escroll :: Escroll (n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed..
Lounge :: Lounge (n.) An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
Dandy :: Dandy (n.) A dandy roller. See below.
Barcarolle :: Barcarolle (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
Devolution :: Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.
Petunia :: Petunia (n.) A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas..
Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..
Trolling :: Trolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trol.
Hysteroepilepsy :: Hysteroepilepsy (n.) A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body..
Seel :: Seel (v. i.) To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea..
Truckle :: Truckle (v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle..
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