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a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed…

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. Ure.

voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

t motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

ston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. Carding engine, Carding machine, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in op…

A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.

A strolling gamester. [Ireland] Spenser.

A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet- shaped upper petal, as in aconite.

es in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.

ym: [F.], a catalogue of books, etc., classed according to their subjects. Syn. -- List; roll; index; schedule; enumeration; inventory. See List.

A scroll; a writing; a schedule. [Obs.]

ating to, or containing, a census. He caused the whole realm to be described in a censual roll. Sir R. Baker.