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A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.

A bearing containing friction rollers.

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

es; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. The great controller of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden.

The office of a controller.

A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.

droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

One who enrolls or registers.

One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.

Prowler; thief. [Obs.] Chapman.

A small India-rubber roller with a handle, used esp. in printing and photography as a squeegee.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

One who trolls.

a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]

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

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A preparation of which printer's rollers are made.

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