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- English Word Roller Definition A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
- English Word Roller Definition A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
- English Word Roller Definition ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
- English Word Roller Definition Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
- English Word Roller Definition Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
- English Word Rolley Definition A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine.
- English Word Rollic Definition To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.
- English Word Rollicked Definition of Rollic
- English Word Rollicking Definition of Rollic
- English Word Rolling Definition of Roll
- English Word Rolling Definition Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
- English Word Rolling Definition Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
- English Word Rolling Definition Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.
- English Word Rolling-pin Definition A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
- English Word Rollway Definition A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.
- English Word Rolly-poly Definition A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed.
- English Word Rolly-poly Definition Shaped like a rolly-poly; short and stout.
- English Word Rolly-pooly Definition A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.
- English Word Roly-poly Definition Rolly-poly.
- English Word Romage Definition See Rummage.
- English Word Romaic Definition Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
- English Word Romaic Definition The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
- English Word Roman Definition Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
- English Word Roman Definition Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
- English Word Roman Definition Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
- English Word Roman Definition Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
- English Word Roman Definition A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
- English Word Roman Definition Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
- English Word Romance Definition A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
- English Word Romance Definition An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.