Roll \Roll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rolling}.] [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. {Control}, {Roll}, n., {Rotary}.] 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
4. To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe. --J. A. Symonds.
5. 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.
Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. --Tennyson.
6. 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.
7. To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
8. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
9. (Geom.) 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.
10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright. --Chaucer.
{To roll one's self}, to wallow.
{To roll the eye}, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession.
{To roll one's r's}, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]
Roll \Roll\, v. i. 1. 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.
And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. --Shak.
2. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. ``The rolling chair.'' --Dryden.
3. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
4. To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
5. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
6. To turn; to move circularly.
And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. --Dryden.
7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
What different sorrows did within thee roll. --Prior.
8. 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.
Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. --Pope.
9. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
10. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
11. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
12. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
{To roll about}, to gad abroad. [Obs.]
Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about. --Chaucer.
Roll \Roll\, n. [F. r[^o]le a roll (in sense 3), fr. L. rotulus ? little wheel, LL., a roll, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See {Roll}, v., and cf. {R[^o]le}, {Rouleau}, {Roulette}.] 1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
2. That which rolls; a roller. Specifically: (a) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. --Mortimer. (b) 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.
3. That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. Specifically: (a) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say. --Prior. (b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. --Sir M. Hale.
The roll and list of that army doth remain. --Sir J. Davies. (c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon. (d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
5. (Naut.) 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.
6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
{Long roll} (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line.
{Master of the rolls}. See under {Master}.
{Roll call}, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers.
{Rolls of court}, {of parliament} (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and which constitute the records of such public body.
{To call the roll}, to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present.
Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See {List}.
The $9.9 billion appropriations package is heading toward the president's desk following its approval by Congress on Thursday. The Senate passed it by voice vote; the House endorsed it on a 359-45 roll call.
"I love rock and roll," Mrs. Gore told reporters after her speech. "I grew up on it." A seven-officer Marine Corps jury Friday acquitted Marine Cpl.
And that's when we started to roll over on the right wing." Donna McGrady, one of the flight attendants, said she had her eyes open as the plane crash-landed.
Because the test car had the optional High Capacity Actively Controlled Steering, the Q45 also barely showed any body roll, or yaw in sudden lane changes and side moves.
When the promotion was launched last month, McDonald's said it planned to serve 80 million of the four-ounce boneless shoulder cuts, which are prepared in a hickory-flavored sauce with pickles and onions on a home-style roll.
Coors must find out how seriously Keystone Dry will cannibalize the other Keystone labels, which are on a roll, said Emanuel Goldman, analyst at PaineWebber Inc. "You don't want to mess up a good thing," said Mr. Goldman.
Although Buffalo Bill's name was stricken from the Medal of Honor roll in February 1917, one month after he died, the medal itself was never recalled and remains in the historical center.
Sometimes I was able to roll.
"Shake ratttle and roll," muttered one of the men on the barricade, armed with an automatic weapon.
But baseball's legal battery is now criticized by some owners, and some lawyers familiar with events, for largely letting events roll along.
"By June, we'll be ready to roll that plan out," he says.
No petitions to place Jackson's name on the vice presidential roll call _ a move he had hinted at last week _ were submitted by this morning's deadline.
Players roll the dice to determine rewards - the chance to study at a university, or even become party general secretary - or punishment, such as detention by police.
The highlight for those who remember 1969 as a time of peace, love and rock 'n' roll is previously unshown footage of Janis Joplin performing at Woodstock.
A judge has thrown out a $16 million defamation lawsuit filed against "60 Minutes" humorist Andy Rooney for saying a product designed to make rain and snow roll off windshields doesn't work.
The House, in a 407-5 roll call, approved a similar measure.
Charles, 40, who commanded the ship in 1976, sometimes suffered seasickness as a result of the ship's tendency to roll heavily.
"Before people were on a roll.
Murkowski and Stevens voted against the trade bill in last week's 63-36 roll call, citing the Alaskan oil provisions.
But the type of unquoted trading companies into which investors could roll over their CGT liability is limited - excluded are those which hold more than 50 per cent of their chargeable assets in land, as well as most financial companies and subsidiaries.
Here is the 380-48 roll call Tuesday by which the House voted to reject a $45,000 congressional pay raise.
'The president has fulfilled his roll with absolute neutrality,' says Mr Antonio Guterres, leader of the Socialist Party.
The vote in the 159-member assembly was conducted in a rare roll call ballot requested by Jordan, a departure from the standard electronic voting.
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The fund has now been on a roll since early 1989, with a total return of 191.7% in this 27-month period.
If the electrons roll toward each other with enough force to overcome their normal repulsion, they form a pair.
She went to beauty school, sang with a rock 'n' roll band (Mikey Vee and the Imperials) and worked in a talent agency for child models.
Move over rock 'n' roll and make room for the polka.
The roll materials and films businesses also achieved improved sales and profits, helping to more than offset a loss in the European materials business.
It is an awesome sight to seem him approach a mesmerised female crooning 'You want a hot dog in your roll'; and only a man of impeccable middle-class origins could get away with tales of shipboard life during his gay youth.