·v Part; office; duty; role.
II. Roll ·v That which rolls; a roller.
III. Roll ·v A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
IV. Roll ·v A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
V. Roll ·vi To Turn; to move circularly.
VI. Roll ·noun To turn over in one's mind; to Revolve.
VII. Roll ·vi To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
VIII. Roll ·vi To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
IX. Roll ·vi To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
X. Roll ·v A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
XI. Roll ·vi To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
XII. Roll ·vi To fall or tumble;
— with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
XIII. Roll ·v That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, ·etc.
XIV. Roll ·noun To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
XV. Roll ·noun To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
XVI. Roll ·v A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
XVII. Roll ·v Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
XVIII. Roll ·v The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
XIX. Roll ·vi To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
XX. Roll ·v A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
XXI. Roll ·v The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
XXII. Roll ·vi To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
XXIII. Roll ·v A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
XXIV. Roll ·noun To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
XXV. Roll ·vi To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to Wallow; as, a horse rolls.
XXVI. Roll ·vi To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
XXVII. Roll ·noun To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to Inwrap;
— often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
XXVIII. Roll ·noun To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, ·etc.
XXIX. 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.
XXX. 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.
XXXI. Roll ·noun To utter copiously, ·esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound;
— often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
XXXII. Roll ·vi 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.
XXXIII. Roll ·noun To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
XXXIV. Roll ·noun To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
XXXV. Roll ·vi To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
XXXVI. Roll ·noun To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.