| wolf | adjective (a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man. |
| | adjective (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf. |
| | adjective (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. |
| | adjective (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. |
| | adjective (a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. |
| | adjective (a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. |
| | adjective (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale. |
| | adjective (a.) A willying machine. |
| roll | noun (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel. |
| | noun (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball. |
| | noun (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel. |
| | noun (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean. |
| | noun (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences. |
| | noun (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc. |
| | noun (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. |
| | noun (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon. |
| | noun (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal. |
| | noun (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve. |
| | verb (v. i.) 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. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. |
| | verb (v. i.) 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. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls. |
| | verb (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well. |
| | verb (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls. |
| | verb (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves. |
| | verb (v.) That which rolls; a roller. |
| | verb (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. |
| | verb (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls. |
| | verb (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. |
| | verb (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. |
| | verb (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. |
| | verb (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon. |
| | verb (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. |
| | verb (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. |
| | verb (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. |
| | verb (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder. |
| | verb (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. |
| | verb (v.) Part; office; duty; role. |
| roller | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts. |
| | noun (n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery. |
| | noun (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. |
| | noun (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel. |
| | noun (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. |
| | noun (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man. |
| | noun (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. |
| | noun (n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight. |
| | noun (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae. |
| relief | noun (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress. |
| | noun (n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry. |
| | noun (n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay. |
| | noun (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant. |
| | noun (n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed. |
| | noun (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure. |
| | noun (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch. |
| | noun (n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country. |
| ruff | noun (n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. |
| | noun (n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led. |
| | noun (n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. |
| | noun (n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name. |
| | noun (n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness. |
| | noun (n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct. |
| | noun (n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle. |
| | noun (n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar. |
| | noun (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird. |
| | noun (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Ruffe |
| | verb (v. i. & t.) To trump. |
| | verb (v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it. |
