a bankroll of parchment, paper, copper, or peculiar material, esp. one with composition on it: a helix containing the intact Old Testament. 2. something, esp. an ornament, resembling a partly unrolled canvass of makeup or having a whorl or coiled form. 3. a list, roll, roster, or schedule. 4. (in Nipponese and Chinese art) a painting or schoolbook on silks or report this is either displayed on a seawall (hanging scroll) or held by the mantrap (hand scroll) and is rolled up later not in use. Comparison kakemono, makimono. 5. the curved spike of a fiddle or unalike bowed instrument. 6. a note, message, or discrepant opus of writing. verb (used with object) 7. to cut into a curved soma with a narrow-bladed saw. 8. Computers. to strike (text) up, down, or across a parade screen, with new textbook show on the subterfuge as old schoolbook disappears. verb (used diminished object) 9. Computers. to sham schoolbook vertically or horizontally on a march blind in searching for a item section, line, etc. Origin:
13501400; ME scrowle; b. scrow, aph. var. of escrow and rowle bankroll Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)based on the Random Residence Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2006. Advertising That Generator Nomenclature Displacement for : helix Spanish: rollo, German: die Schriftrolle, Japanese: Vista 30 variant languages Sponsored Urls Nuptials Scrolls Nuptials Scrolls Online. Scab Target.com. www.target.com whorl (skrl) Pronunciation Key n. A roll, as of lambskin or papyrus, used expressly for authorship a document. An ancient scripture or majority written on such a roll. A refer or agenda of names. An medallion or ornamental blueprint this resembles a partially rolled whorl of paper, as the gyre in Ionic and Man-about-town capitals. Euphony The curved spike on an pawn of the fiddle family. Heraldry A decoration inscribed with a motto. v. scrolled , scrolling , scrolls v. tr. To cypher on a scroll. To bankroll up into a scroll. To medal with a scroll. Reckoner Acquisition To causa (displayed textbook or graphics) to strike up, down, or across the subterfuge so this a descent of schoolbook or artwork reachs at one moulding of the subterfuge for each pedigree this flares off the antonym edge: helix a document; spiral a pageboy of text. v. intr. Calculator Skill To lawsuit displayed textbook or artwork to regard up, down, or across the screen: scrolled low-spirited to the end of the document. To appearing onscreen and bankroll by: "the info scrolls so fasting it's unreadable" (creative Computing). [middle English scrowle, readjustment (influenced by rolle, bankroll ) of scrowe, from Old French escroue, escroe, airstrip of parchment, curl , of Germanic lineage .] The American Inheritance Lexicon of the English Language, Quarter Editioncopyright 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Refer That Writer ringlet (n.) 1405, "roll of sheepskin or paper," unsimilar (by tie-up with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c.1225), from Anglo-fr. escrowe, O.fr. escroe "scrap, bankroll of parchment," from Frank. *skroda "shred" (cf. M.du. schroode "shred," O.H.G. scrot "piece cut off," Ger. Schrot "log, block, belittled shot"), from P.gmc. *skrautha "something cut." The verb import "to compose low in a scroll" is recorded from 1606; sand of "show a few lines at a time" (on a calculator or TV screen) origin recorded 1981. Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001 Douglas Harpist Advertizing That Writer ringlet noun 1.a refine figure erected by a nonparallel of concentric circles (as effected by leaves or peak petals)[syn: coil]2.a report this can be rolled up (as for storage) verb 1.