n. [ F. arolle. ] (Bot.) The stone pine (Pinus Cembra). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. the money carried on one's person. ”He shot his bankroll on a bob-tailed nag.”
Syn. -- roll, wad. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. one's total supply of money; funds. [ PJC ]

v. t. To pay the costs of; as, Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. barcarolle, fr. It. barcaruola, fr. barca bark, barge. ] (Mus.) (a) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. (b) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being controlled; controllableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being controlled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From control, v. t.: cf. F. contrôleur. ] 1. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great controller of our fate
Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [ More commonly written controller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Elec.) Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; specif.: (a) An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation. (b) A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. (Mach.) A lever controlling the speed of an engine; -- applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The office of a controller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corolla a little crown or garland, dim. of corona. See Crown. ] (Bot.) The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Corollaries [ L. corollarium gift, corollary, fr. corolla. See Corolla. ] 1. That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary,
Rather than want a spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. corolla. ] (Bot.) A floret in an aggregate flower. [ Obs. ] Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Corolla + L. flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Control. ] (O. Eng. Law) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As a verb this word is contracted into control. See Control. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Disenrolled p. pr. & vb. n. Disenrolling. ] To erase from a roll or list. [ Written also disenrol. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Droller superl. Drollest ] [ F. drôle; cf. G. & D. drollig, LG. drullig, D. drol a thick and short person, a droll, Sw. troll a magical appearance, demon, trolla to use magic arts, enchant, Dan. trold elf, imp, Icel. tröll giant, magician, evil spirit, monster. If this is the origin, cf. Trull. ] Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Drolled p. pr. & vb. n. Drolling. ] To jest; to play the buffoon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A jester; a droll. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Drolleries [ F. drôlerie. See Droll. ] 1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rich drollery of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [ Obs. ] Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a jesting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat droll. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A droll. [ R. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enrolled p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling. ] [ Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enrôler; pref. en- (L. in) + rôle roll or register. See Roll, n. ] [ Written also enrol. ] 1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who is enrolled, especially a learner who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who enrolls or registers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. enrôlement. ] [ Written also enrolment. ] 1. The act of enrolling; registration. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Escrow, Scroll. ] 1. A scroll. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) (a) A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest. (b) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Basketball) A shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + controllable: cf. F. incontrôlable. ] Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South. [1913 Webster]

v. t. See Enroll. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inscrolled p. pr. & vb. n. Inscrolling. ] To write on a scroll; to record. [ Written also inscrol. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The larva of any tortricid moth which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants and tying the leaves with spun silk; aalso, the moth itself. See Tortrix. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [ Political cant, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engages in logrolling. [ Political cant, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Logging) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A combining or mutual agreement in which one politician supports or assists another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; wheeling and dealing; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [ Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as automated.
Syn. -- automated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Sp.; cf. Pg. mero. ] Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (Epinephelus morio), the black grouper (Epinephelus nigritas), distinguished as and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Pref. para- + corolla. ] (Bot.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An individual or a member of a group that patrols an area. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.
Syn. -- patrol. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ See Prowl. ] [ imp. & p. p. Prolled p. pr. & vb. n. Prolling. ] To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To prowl about; to rob. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though ye prolle aye, ye shall it never find. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]