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A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.

ake in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. Roughing rolls, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars. -- To rough it, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts.

A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.

A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.

See Rolly-pooly.

Anything round, as a circle, round" [the crown]. Shak. In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled. Milton.

A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and

The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff. H. L. Scott.

t may be described by a straight line moving according to a given law; -- called also a scroll.

Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.

, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: --

To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one). A large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beatified, though never sainted. Addison. To saint it, to act as a saint, or with a show of piety. Whether the ch…

in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter. One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream. Masson.

n aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton.

A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.

A scholium. A judgment which follows immediately from another is sometimes called a corollary, or consectary . . . One which illustrates the science where it appears, but is not an integral part of it, is a scholion. Abp. Thomson (Laws of Thought).