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A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. Roll train, or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. -- Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all…

To travel; to wander; to stroll.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. A. V. G. Allen.

air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.

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, cardioid…

A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

See Troll.

See Troll.

A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop. Shak.

A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

orm of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

Phanæus, 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.

bitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

ted, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. Milton.