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, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).

One who trolls.

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.

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.

nes; 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.

Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South.

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

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

unt 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.

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