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A scroll. [Obs.]

Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South.

See Enroll.

To write on a scroll; to record. [Written also inscrol.] Shak.

To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]

One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.

The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me"ro de lo al"to, and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me"ro ca*brol"la.

A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.

To prowl about; to rob. [Obs.] South. Though ye prolle aye, ye shall it never find. Chaucer.

Prowler; thief. [Obs.] Chapman.

The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. [Also written ragman-roll.]

The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.

A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. Isa. xxxiv. 4. Here is the scroll of every man's name. Shak.

Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.

A small India-rubber roller with a handle, used esp. in printing and photography as a squeegee.

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).

One who trolls.