Burgess-ship
(n.) The state of privilege of a burgess. |
Counter-roll
(n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
Gauger-ship
(n.) The office of a gauger. |
High-churchman-ship
(n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
Hostess-ship
(n.) The character, personality, or office of a hostess. |
Light-ship
(n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
Lode-ship
(n.) An old name for a pilot boat. |
Log-ship
(n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2. |
Ragman's roll
() The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. |
Roll
(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over |
Roll
(n.) To wrap round on itself |
Roll
(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage |
Roll
(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling |
Roll
(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words |
Roll
(n.) To press or level with a roller |
Roll
(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. |
Roll
(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum |
Roll
(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping |
Roll
(n.) To turn over in one's mind |
Roll
(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding |
Roll
(v. i.) To move on wheels |
Roll
(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball |
Roll
(v. i.) To fall or tumble |
Roll
(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution |
Roll
(v. i.) To turn |
Roll
(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. |
Roll
(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other |
Roll
(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down |
Roll
(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin |
Roll
(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. |
Roll
(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise |
Roll
(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled |
Roll
(v.) That which rolls |
Roll
(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. |
Roll
(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill |
Roll
(v.) That which is rolled up |
Roll
(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up |
Roll
(v.) Hence, an official or public document |
Roll
(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form |
Roll
(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. |
Roll
(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. |
Roll
(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. |
Roll
(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound |
Roll
(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. |
Roll
(v.) Part |
-ship
(n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art |
Ship
(n.) Pay |
Ship
(n.) Any large seagoing vessel. |
Ship
(n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. |
Ship
(n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. |