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v. i.
To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
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To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
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To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
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To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
v.
That which rolls; a roller.
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To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
n.
Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.
n.
The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.
v. i.
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.
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A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
v. i.
To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
n.
To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
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ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
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A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
n. pl.
Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants.
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One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
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A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
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.
n.
The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.
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the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
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