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To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden.

Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

A preparation of which printer's rollers are made.

A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.

A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Enrolled; written; registered. Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the "fathers" the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.

An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet.

To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.

That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary. [R.] Milton.

duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. [Obs.] This report was controlled to be false. Fuller.

The power or act of controlling; the state of being rstrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. You may do it without controlment. Shak.

ciation. Glanvill. "T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. Byron.

bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20.

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.

The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. Thomson.

To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.

A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone.

A corolla.