'To roll about' definitions:
Definition of 'To roll about'
From: GCIDE
- Roll \Roll\, v. i.
- 1. To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane. [1913 Webster]
- And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. "The rolling chair." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To turn; to move circularly. [1913 Webster]
- And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. [1913 Webster]
- What different sorrows did within thee roll. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about. [1913 Webster]
- Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well. [1913 Webster]
- 11. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. [1913 Webster]
- 12. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls. [1913 Webster]
- To roll about, to gad abroad. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To roll about'
- Roll,
- Rolled,
- Rolling,
- roll down,
- roll in,
- roll off,
- roll on,
- roll out,
- roll over,
- roll up,
- Court rolls,
- Finishing rolls,
- Fire roll,
- Forge rolls,
- Kitcat roll,
- Long roll,
- Master of the rolls,
- Muster roll,
- Patent rolls,
- Pay roll,
- Planishing rolls,
- Ragman's roll,
- Rent roll,
- Roll call,
- Roll latten,
- Roll train,
- Rolling Fields,
- Rolling Fork,
- Rolling Hills,
- Rolling Meadows,
- Rolling Oaks,
- Rolling bridge,
- Rolling fire,
- Rolling friction,
- Rolling mill,
- Rolling plant,
- Rolling press,
- Rolling stock,
- Rolling tackle,
- Rolls of court,
- Roughing rolls,
- Size roll,
- To call the roll,
- To roll the eye,
- Train of rolls,
- Whip roll,
- barrel roll,
- chequer roll,
- church roll,
- cinnamon roll,
- coffee roll,
- crescent roll,
- drum roll,
- egg roll,
- get rolling,
- hamburger roll,
- hard roll,
- honor roll,
- kaiser roll,
- music roll,
- onion roll,
- pinwheel roll,
- pipe roll,
- rock and roll,
- roll around,
- roll back,
- roll film,
- roll in the hay,
- roll of tobacco,
- roll-on,
- roll-on roll-off,
- rolled biscuit,
- rolled into one,
- rolled oats,
- rolled rolled-upprenominal,
- rolling hitch,
- rolling paper,
- rolling pin,
- rolling stone,
- rolling wave,
- sausage roll,
- snap roll,
- soft roll,
- spring roll,
- sweet roll,
- swiss roll,
- toilet roll,
- vienna roll,
- Counter-roll,
- Rolling Fields, KY,
- Rolling Fork, MS,
- Rolling Hills Estates,
- Rolling Hills, CA,
- Rolling Hills, KY,
- Rolling Hills, WY,
- Rolling Meadows, IL,
- Rolling Oaks, FL,
- Rolling-pin,
- To roll one's r's,
- To roll one's self,
- death-roll,
- finger-roll,
- jelly roll morton,
- parker house roll,
- ragman-roll,
- rent-roll,
- rock 'n' roll,
- rock'n'roll,
- rock-and-roll,
- Rolling Hills Estates, CA,
- Rolling circle of a paddle wheel,
- clover-leaf roll,
- convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself,
- rock 'n' roll musician,
- involute rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud having margins rolled inward