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ROLL, It is usual to consider this word as formed by contraction from the Latin rotula, a little wheel, from rota.
1. To move by turning on the surface, or with a circular motion in which all parts of the surface are successively applied to a plane as, to roll a barrel or puncheon to roll a stone or ball. Sisyphus was condemned to roll a stone to the top of a hill, which, when he had done so, rolled down again, and thus his punishment was eternal.
2. To revolve to turn on its axis as, to roll a wheel or a planet.
3. To move in a circular direction.
To dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye.
4. To wrap round on itself to form into a circular or cylindrical body as, to roll a piece of cloth to roll a sheet of paper to roll parchment to roll tobacco.
5. To enwrap to bind or involve in a bandage or the like.
6. To form by rolling into round masses.
7. To drive or impel any body with a circular motion, or to drive forward with violence or in a stream. The ocean rolls its billows to the shore. A river rolls its water to the ocean.
8. To spread with a roller or rolling pin as, to roll paste.
9. To produce a periodical revolution.
Heav'n shone and roll'd her motions.
10. To press or level with a roller as, to roll a field.
To roll one's self, to wallow. Micah 1 .
ROLL,
1. To move by turning on the surface, or with the successive application of all parts of the surface to a plane as, a ball or a wheel rolls on the earth a body rolls on an inclined plane.
2. To move, turn or run on an axis as a wheel. In this sense, revolve is more generally used.
3. To run on wheels.
And to the rolling chair is bound.
4. To revolve to perform a periodical revolution as the rolling year. Ages roll away.
5. To turn to move circularly.
And his red eyeballs roll with living fire.
6. To float in rough water to be tossed about.
Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll'd -
7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swells and depressions. Waves roll on waves.
8. To fluctuate to move tumultuously.
What diff'rent sorrows did within thee roll.
9. To be moved with violence to be hurled.
Down they fell by thousands, angel on archangel roll'd.
10. To be formed into a cylinder or ball as, the cloth rolls well.
11. To spread under a roller or rolling pin. The paste rolls well.
12. To wallow to tumble as, a horse rolls.
13. To rock or move from side as, a ship rolls in a calm.
14. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
ROLL, n.
1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled as the roll of a ball.
2. The thing rolling.
3. A mass made round something like a ball or cylinder as a roll of fat a roll of wool.
4. A roller a cylinder of wood, iron or stone as a roll to break clods.
5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form as a roll of woolen or satin a roll of lace.
6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
7. An official writing a list a register a catalogue as a muster-roll a court roll.
8. The beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
9. Rolls of court, of parliament, or of any public body, are the parchments on which are engrossed, by the proper officer, the acts and proceedings of that body, and which being kept in rolls, constitute the records of such public body.
10. In antiquity, a volume a book consisting of leaf, bark, paper, skin or other material on which the ancients wrote, and which being kept rolled or folded, was called in Latin volume, from volvo, to roll. Hence.
11. A chronicle history annals.
Nor names more noble graced the rolls of fame.
12. Part office that is, round of duty, like turn. Obs.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Roll'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/roll.html.
Entry for 'Roll'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/roll.html.
