What diff'rent sorrows did within thee roll.ĩ. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swells and depressions. To float in rough water to be tossed about.ħ. Ages roll away.Īnd his red eyeballs roll with living fire.Ħ. To revolve to perform a periodical revolution as the rolling year. In this sense, revolve is more generally used.Ĥ. To move, turn or run on an axis as a wheel. 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.Ģ. To press or level with a roller as, to roll a field.ġ. To spread with a roller or rolling pin as, to roll paste.ġ0. The ocean rolls its billows to the shore. To drive or impel any body with a circular motion, or to drive forward with violence or in a stream. To enwrap to bind or involve in a bandage or the like.ħ. 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.ĥ. To dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye.Ĥ. To revolve to turn on its axis as, to roll a wheel or a planet. 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.Ģ. 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. It is usual to consider this word as formed by contraction from the Latin rotula, a little wheel, from rota.ġ.
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