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A motor car to which the current is conveyed by means of a trolley.

A heavy conducting wire on which the trolley car runs and from which it receives the current.

A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [Eng.]

The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames.] [Obs.] Shak.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.

To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

To roll up. Milton.

nt of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

bsolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

uits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.

A rolling toward something. [R.]

Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.

erfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.]

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak.