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A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

ge on, as around a metal sheet or boiler plate, by stretching, bending, and hammering, or rolling the metal. -- To turn against. (a) To direct against; as, to turn one's arguments against himself. (b) To make unfavorable or hostile to; as, to turn one's friends against him. -- To turn a hostile army, To turn the enem…

A roll of twisted dough, baked.

ented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled. Dr. W. Smith.

Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope.

r hideous change. Milton. Under arms. (Mil.) (a) Drawn up fully armed and equipped. (b) Enrolled for military service; as, the state has a million men under arms. -- Under canvas. (a) (Naut.) Moved or propelled by sails; -- said of any vessel with her sail set, but especially of a steamer using her sails only, as dist…

A promise or pledge; a guarantee. A. Trollope.

Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy.

Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground. -- Un"du*la`ting*ly. adv.

Having one lip only; as, a unilabiate corolla.

Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.

Not governed or controlled. "Unruled and undirected." Spenser.

Something not true; a false statement. [Recent & R.] A. Trollope.

er place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

ped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.

Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.

Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.