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unˈroll, v.
[un-2 3, 5, 7. Cf. Du. ont-, Ger. entrollen.]
1. trans. To open out from a rolled-up state; to uncoil.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. 171 Ful knyȝtly þei han take her weye..with baneris..displaied, And her penouns vnrollid euerychon. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxli. 145/1 [He] rested on the felde, and caused his banerr to be vnrolled. 1611Cotgr., Desrouler, to vnroule, vnfould, lay open. a1700Evelyn Diary 15 Jan. 1645, On which lay the 5 Bookes of Moses, and the Commandments a little unrowled. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 89 Then unroll the cloth, and roll it tight again. 1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 267 Turf..when to be laid, unrolled, joining..close edge to edge. 1828Duppa Trav. Italy, etc. 98 In this Museum [at Naples] is carried on the operation of unrolling the ancient papyri. 1873J. Richards Wood-working Factories 122 By unrolling the blade on the floor, it can be tested as to straightness.
refl.1815Scott Guy M. xxxviii, Rolling up..the long lash of his horsewhip, and then by a jerk causing it to unroll itself into the middle of the floor. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xvii, Till not..an armadillo [dare] unroll himself.
b. In fig. contexts.
1678Dryden All for Love v. i, Time has unrowl'd her Glories to the last, And now clos'd up the Volume. 1750Gray Elegy 50 But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page..did ne'er unroll. 1757― Bard 106 But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glitt'ring skirts unroll? 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clvii, Until thy mind..unroll In mighty graduations, part by part, The glory. 1866Le Fanu All in Dark xiii, One could see..that she was reading to herself the romance that was unrolled within her pretty girlish head. 1876–89R. Bridges Growth of Love xlvii, The busy mind Will in one woeful moment more upwind Than lifelong years unroll of bitter or black.
c. To extend, spread out; to disperse.
1813Scott Trierm. iii. xii, And still..Were..bastions dimly seen, And Gothic battlements between Their gloomy length unroll'd. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. xxxviii, Wisdom had unrolled The clouds which hide the gulf of mortal woe. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. iii, The mist had settled upon the hills, and unrolled itself upon brook, glade, and tarn.
d. fig. To develop or expand fully.
1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Eloquence, Jenny Lind..complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice. a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. iv. (1876) 92 That all these elements are really present, is shewn most incontestably when the sentiment comes to be deliberately unrolled.
2. intr. To become unrolled. Also fig.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 35 Euen as an Adder when she doth vnrowle To do some fatall execution. 1797Blake Four Zoas ix. 20 The Books of Urizen unroll with dreadful noise! 1807J. Barlow Columb. ii. 132 The venturous soul Bids greater powers and bolder thoughts unrol. 1816J. Wilson Misc. Poems 194 As the clouds of the morning unroll. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 532 To fold..this projecting part down, in such a manner as to..prevent the slip from unrolling.
†3. trans. To remove from a roll or list. Obs.—1
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iii. 130 If I make not this Cheat bring out another,..let me be vnrold, and my name put in the booke of Vertue.
Hence unˈrolled ppl. a.1; unˈroller; unˈrolling vbl. n. and ppl. a.1
1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 113 When we find a line of sand strewed along the *unrolled fleece. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 27 Passing the unrolled end [of the bandage] over the shoulder and down the back.
1843For. Q. Rev. II. 364 A pale-faced *unroller of dusty records.
1648Hexham ii, Een Ontrollinge, an *Vnroling, or an Vnfolding. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. 3 There is..no unrolling of a great drama, no beginning, middle and end of a moral progress. 1870Burton Hist. Scot. lxi. VI. 93 The unrolling of secrets.
1699C. Hopkins Crt. Prosp., Peace iii, *Unrowling Waves steal softly to the Shore. a1850Bryant To a Cloud 9, I would I were with thee..To rest on thy unrolling skirts. |