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n axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

Capable of being rolled.

One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.

A bearing containing friction rollers.

An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.

A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine. Tomlison.

less, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking. [Colloq.] He described his friends as rollicking blades. T. Hook.

A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey.

ing along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.

A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. -- a.

A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins. [Written also rouly-pouly.]

The stone pine (Pinus Cembra).

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

unted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

Capability of being controlled.