scrolln.
/skrəʊl/, U.S. /skroʊl/ 1.
a. A roll of paper or parchment, usually one with writing upon it.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > [noun] > scroll of
roll?c1225
scrow?c1225
scroll14..
scarf1655
rotulet1833
volumen1851
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 682/26 Hec sidula, a scrowle.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clvii He therfore redde the Scrowle of Resygnacyon him selfe in maner & fourme as foloweth.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. vi. 14 And heven vanysshed awaye as a scroll when hitt is rolled togedder.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. C2 I of necessitie, for here's the scrowle, Wherein thou hast giuen thy soule to Lucifer.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 18 What's here? a scrole, and written round about. View more context for this quotation
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 392* Thus bowing his head to look upon a scroul lapt about his finger, he made a pause.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 69 An old Parchment Scrowl was tagged on according to Art, in the Form of a Codicil annexed.
1747 W. Collins Odes 45 Let some retreating Cynic find, Those oft-turn'd Scrolls I leave behind.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xix, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 35 Other scrolls whose writings did unbind The inmost lore of Love.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 12 He past To turn and ponder those three hundred scrolls Left by the Teacher, whom he held divine.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxvi. 460 A stranger thrust a scroll into his hand, and begged him to read it on the spot.
b. figurative.
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1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xv. 34 God was pleased to shew the scrowles of his eternall counsels.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xi. 37 And now, to me The moonlight..Interpreted those scrolls of mortal mystery.
1891 F. Thompson Sister-songs (1895) 32 Summoned by some presaging scroll of fate.
c. transferred.
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1656 A. Cowley Isaiah XXXIV in Pindaric Odes xxxiv. iii The wide-stretcht Scrowl of Heaven.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 iii. 26 As the day sinks, scrolls of pearly clouds draw themselves around the mountain crests.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped ii. 12 I saw a scroll of smoke go mounting.
d. A roll or bundle of any material.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object > formed by rolling
roll1378
rouleau1788
scroll1853
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxix. 282 Chesney Wold is shut up, carpets are rolled into great scrolls in corners of comfortless rooms.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvii. 177 I took Sir John Franklin's portrait..and cased it in an India-rubber scroll.
e. Scroll of the Law n. Judaism a scroll containing the Torah or Pentateuch; = Sefer Torah n. Also absol.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Hebrew scripture > [noun] > Pentateuch > scroll of
Sefer Torah1650
Scroll of the Law1887
Torah scroll1901
1887 Jewish Rec. 11 Mar. 6/1 The Ark, containing only two very small scrolls of the law, was simply a deal cupboard.
1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 395 There was an Ark with scrolls of the Law in the room.
1949 Spectator 4 Nov. 595/2 The Ark was opened and the Scrolls of the Law revealed.
1976 C. Bermant Coming Home i. v. 63 Sacred Scrolls of the Law..prayer-shawls, and an entire kosher field kitchen..followed us south.
1978 H. Kemelman Thursday Rabbi walked Out (1979) xii. 73 In the morning services..we read from the Scroll.
2.
a. A piece of writing, esp. a letter.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun]
epistleeOE
pistleOE
writOE
letter?c1225
brief1330
writingc1384
missive letter1519
scroll1534
missive?1553
scrieve1581
favour1645
chitty1698
chit1757
mail letter1799
society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > piece or quantity of
i-writeOE
writlOE
hand-writc1175
scritec1325
scripta1350
writingc1384
letterc1390
write1428
briefa1450
titlec1450
scroll1534
escript1550
passagec1550
hand write1567
side1579
scrieve1581
manuscript1600
sheetful1711
page1743
slateful1836
chirograph1844
pageful1859
M1899
society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on roll
rolla1325
scroll1534
1534 T. Starkey Let. in Eng. in Reign Henry VIII (1878) i. p. ix Syr, the grete gentylnes of you so manyfestely schowyd toward me,..gyuyth me yet a lytyl more boldnes to trowbul you with the redyng of htys scrole.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. viii. 5 Do not exceede The Prescript of this Scroule . View more context for this quotation
1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 101 Forgive me this long scroll, which is not my ordinary, and give my wife's and my humble duty to your lady and family.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xxi. 273 And that between them then there went Some scroll of courteous compliment.
b. A list, roll, or schedule (of names). Also figurative.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people
bead-roll1529
scroll1546
checker-roll1571
bead-row1576
panel?1578
list1604
nomenclature1635
lexicon1647
head-roll1819
name-scroll1861
visitors' lista1865
roll-call1867
test-roll1879
line-up1890
1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.v A scrowle wherin were wrytten the names of the paryshes wherof he was parson.
1556 in Burnet Hist. Ref. (1681) II. ii. ii. xxviii. 302 To whose hands..any of the said Accompts, Books, Scroles, Instruments, or other Writings..did or is come.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. ii. 15 Now good Peeter Quince, call forth your Actors, by the scrowle . View more context for this quotation
1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vii. 57 Neither can it suffice for peace, to haue crossed the old scrole of our sins if we preuent not the future.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 336 Such follow him, as shall be registerd Part good, part bad, of bad the longer scrowle . View more context for this quotation
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 1 Men whom fame has eternised in her long and lasting scroll.
1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone II. v. v. 84 He was..to add another to the long scroll of tragedies in the house of Hapsburg.
c. A draft or copy (of a letter). ? Scottish ? Obsolete.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > draft or copy
scroll-copy1790
scroll1855
1790 [see scroll-copy n. at Compounds 3].
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxvi. 382 He wrote scrolls of almost every letter he composed.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae vi. 165 The best will be to reproduce a letter of my own..of which (according to an excellent habitude) I have preserved the scroll.
3.
a. A strip or ribbon-shaped slip of paper with a legend inscribed; a graphic or plastic representation of this.
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society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on paper > on strip or slip of paper
schedule1397
scrolla1600
a1600 Floddan Field (1664) iv. 32 A certain scrall, whose scripture said, Jack of Norfolk be not too bold.
1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 17 This motto is in divers severall scrowlls: ‘Mercy and Grace’.
1751 R. Hurd Poet. Imitation 148 Painters continuing, for a long time, to put written scrolls in the mouths of their figures; and contriving, by this expedient, to make them tell their business to the spectator.
b. Heraldry. The ribbon-like appendage to a coat of arms, on which the motto is inscribed; = escroll n. 2. Also, transferred the words inscribed upon the scroll.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > extra-scutal devices > [noun] > motto > scroll
escroll1610
scroll1610
string1797
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > extra-scutal devices > [noun] > motto
mot1575
brief1594
motto1600
scroll1859
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. vi. 270 Three or foure Wordes, which are set in some Scrole or Compartement, placed vsually at the foot of the Escocheon.
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Scroll, part of the outward ornaments of the shield, achievement or escocheon of arms in which the motto is inscribed.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 118 A knightly shield..; the scroll ‘I follow fame’.
c. Apparently used for: A streamer, narrow flag.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag
streamer1292
streamc1440
pendant1466
guidon1548
wimple1656
pennant1698
pinnet1727
scroll1808
fan-
1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xxviii. 216 A thousand streamers flaunted fair..Scroll, pennon, pensil, bandrol there O'er the pavilions flew.
4. An ornament resembling a scroll of paper partly unrolled.
a. A convoluted or spiral ornament; spec. the volute of the Ionic and Corinthian capitals.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > curves or spirals
oundingc1390
bendc1535
wrall1540
tirl1597
scroll1611
gadroon1694
scroll-work1739
queen's pattern1769
rinceau1773
cartouchea1776
curlicue1844
wave1845
scrollage1847
ogee1851
rope border1855
gadrooning1856
rope-work1866
vermiculation1866
ringing1885
scrollery1892
twirligig1902
C-scroll1904
trumpet spiral1936
trumpet pattern1937
koru1938
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vrilles, hooke-like edges or ends of leaues (called by some of our workemen Scrolls, and) sticking out in the upper parts of pillers, and of other peeces of Architecture.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 88 For scrowles to the said windowes, six shillings a piece.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1655 (1955) III. 148 A most rich Achat cup of an Escalop shape, & having a figure of Cleopatra at the Scroll.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Scrowles, or Volutes.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. vii. 166 The capitals are gilt and painted with ugly scrolls and compartments, in the taste of that reign.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 200 The Scroll is the termination of the hand~rail of a geometrical stair, in the form of a spiral.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 43 Dark slabs carved with the great Cross-sword, And..the galley, with scrolls all round.
b. Shipbuilding. A curved piece of timber bolted to the knee of the head.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 394/2 The upper part [of the upper cheek] may run in a serpentine as high as where the shoulder of the figure is supposed to come, at which place it may be turned off with a scroll. The distance from the scroll to the heel of the figure is called the hair-bracket.
1898 A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms Scroll or scroll-head.
c. The curved head of instruments of the violin kind, in which the tuning-pins are set.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > other parts of
neck1611
tailpiece1786
soul1830
scroll1836
belly1843
sound-bar1884
tail-pin1884
saddle1899
1836 G. Dubourg Violin i. 8 The scroll, that crowning charm of the fiddle's form.
1875 G. Hart Violin 288 He calmly set himself to open the parcel containing his dissected ‘Strad’, when..he failed to find its scroll.
d. U.S. A flourish (or sometimes a circle) added to a person's signature to represent a seal, and having the same value.
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1856 Bouvier's Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) II. 500 Scroll, a mark which is to supply the place of a seal, made with a pen or other instrument on a writing. In some of the states this has all the efficacy of a seal.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 403/1 Scroll is also used for the flourish made at the end of a signature, representing a seal.
5.
a. Applied variously in technical use to scroll-shaped or spiral parts, figures, etc. (see quots.).
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1868 [see scroll-wheel n. at Compounds 3].
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scroll, (Hydraulic Engineering.) A spiral or converging adjutage around a turbine or other reaction water-wheel, designed to equalize the rate of flow of water at all parts around the circumference of the wheel, by decreasing the capacity of the chute in its circuit.
1891 Cent. Dict. Scroll, the mantling or lambrequin of a tilting-helmet. (Rare.)
1891 Cent. Dict. Scroll, in anat., a turbinate bone.
b. Geometry. A skew ruled surface.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [noun]
superficec1400
superficies1530
surface1604
superficie1702
wave-surface1833
developable1847
quartic1854
scroll1862
conicoid1863
regulus1874
Riemann surface1876
tetrahedroid1889
construct1902
skew1902
trend surface1956
1862 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1892) V. 90 The skew surface of the third order, or ‘cubic scroll’..may be considered [etc.].
c. Physical Geography. A crescent-shaped strip of land formed of material deposited on the inside of a river meander. Cf. point bar n. at point n.1 Compounds 2 (b).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water
roddon1857
platform-mud1863
cone1864
fan1864
levee1870
alluvial fan1873
apron1889
sand-wash1901
scroll1902
spillbank1909
sheet-flow1928
point bar1945
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river > scroll
scroll1902
point bar1945
1902 W. M. Davis in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 38 300 The flood plain must be scoured out for a certain stretch..around the concave banks and along the up-valley side of every lobe; while a scroll of new flood plain..is added around the end and on the down-valley side of the lobe.
1939 A. K. Lobeck Geomorphol. vii. 223 The following observable characteristics of mature streams may be taken to indicate that a graded profile has been established..: (a) Flood plain, with natural levees; (b) meanders, with abandoned meander scrolls, cutoffs, and oxbow lakes; [etc.].
1960 Geogr. Bull. 14 92 The abandoned meander scars and oxbows have radii of 1 to 2 miles, a size fully equal to the meander loops and scrolls of the lower course of the modern Horton River.
1975 R. V. Ruhe Geomorphol. iv. 72/2 Fresh meander scars, abandoned channels, and flood-plain scrolls are in a channel belt one to two miles wide along the present channel.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
a.
scroll back n.
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1958 S. Spender Engaged in Writing 13 The guests..in their scroll-back chairs.
1969 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 590 Scroll back, upholsterer's term for a single chair with the back curved at the top to form a scroll.
1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 29/3 (advt.) Three piece..scroll back suite.
scroll bracket n.
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1936 Burlington Mag. July 25/1 A baluster finial, supported by three beaded scroll-brackets.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 18 Nov. 28/4 As well as scroll brackets, the canopies can also be supported by Georgian-style columns.
scroll-case n.
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1896 Daily News 5 Mar. 7/4 A clock by Vulliamy, in scroll case.
scroll foot n.
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1935 Burlington Mag. July 36/1 The same scroll-feet curved inwards and enriched with a row of silver pearls.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 251/2 Designs for chairs with scroll feet were included in the third edition of Chippendale's Director.
1977 J. Fleming & H. Honour Penguin Dict. Decorative Arts 715/2 Scroll foot, the foot especially of a mid-c 18 English chair-leg in the form of a tight scroll.
scroll-handle n.
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1878 A. Nesbitt Descr. Catal. Glass Vessels S. Kensington Mus. 128 Vase..with two scroll handles.
scroll-keystone n.
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1813 Gentleman's Mag 83 i. 38/1 To this arch a scroll key-stone, and to the postern ditto plain key-stones.
scroll-leg n.
scroll-moulding n.
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1850 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) I. 389 Roll-moulding... It is sometimes called the scroll moulding, from its resemblance to a scroll of paper or parchment with the edge overlapping.
scroll-work n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > curves or spirals
oundingc1390
bendc1535
wrall1540
tirl1597
scroll1611
gadroon1694
scroll-work1739
queen's pattern1769
rinceau1773
cartouchea1776
curlicue1844
wave1845
scrollage1847
ogee1851
rope border1855
gadrooning1856
rope-work1866
vermiculation1866
ringing1885
scrollery1892
twirligig1902
C-scroll1904
trumpet spiral1936
trumpet pattern1937
koru1938
1739 T. Gray Let. 22 May in Corr. (1971) I. 108 Sugar-loaves and minced-pies of yew; scrawl-work of box, and little squirting jets-d'eau.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 2/1 The three doors will be of oak, relieved by the quaint and beautiful ramified iron scroll-work so characteristic of this style of architecture.
b.
scroll-leaved adj.
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1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxi, in Poems (1967) 58 In thy sight Storm flakes were scroll-leaved flowers.
scroll-patterned adj.
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1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlv. 195 As if she had to work out her deliverance from bondage by finishing a scroll-patterned border.
scroll-shaped adj.
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1896 Daily News 5 Mar. 7/4 A large Louis XV. ormolu cartel clock,..in a scroll-shaped case.
c.
scroll-wise adv.
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxvi. 419 To the whale, his tail is the sole means of propulsion. Scroll-wise coiled forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards.
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos vii. 129 Young leaves..coiled up scroll-wise at their tips.
C2.
a. Objective.
scroll-cutter n.
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1892 Daily Chron. 28 Apr. 8/1 Gun Engraving. Wanted at once good scroll cutter.
scroll-cutting n.
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1873 J. Richards Operator's Handbk. 125 For scroll cutting, slitting, and with narrow blades generally, the matter of teeth has not such importance.
scroll-filer n.
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?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 91 Whitesmith... Scroll Filer.
b. Instrumental.
scroll-cut adj.
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1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 75/1 Separated by scroll~cut standards.
C3. Special combinations:† scroll chair n. Obsolete a chair with a carved scroll ornament.
scroll-bone n. (see quot. 1891).
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1891 Cent. Dict. Scroll-bone... The principal scroll-bones are the ethmoturbinals, maxilloturbinals, and sphenoturbinals.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs
farthingale chair1552
side chair1582
high chair1609
scroll chair1614
Turkey chair1683
curule chair1695
reading chair1745
rush-bottom1754
conversation-chair1793
Windsor tub1800
Trafalgar chair1808
beehive-chair1816
nursing chair1826
Hitchcockc1828
toilet seat1829
kangaroo1834
prie-dieu1838
tub-chair1839
barrel-chair1850
Cromwell chair1868
office chair1874
swivel-chair1885
steamer-chair1886
suggan chair1888
lawn chair1895
saddle seat1895
Bombay chair1896
veranda-chair1902
X chair1904
Yorkshire chair1906
three legs and a swinger1916
saddlebag1919
riempie stool1933
gaspipe chair1934
slipper chair1938
Eames chair1946
contour chair1948
sling-back1948
sling chair1957
booster chair1960
booster seat1967
beanbag1969
sack chair1970
papasan1980
Muskoka chair1987
1614 in Archaeologia (1869) 42 354 One highe Chaire with a longe cushin, two scrowle chaires, two highe stooles.
scroll-chuck n. a lathe-chuck with a spiral arrangement for operating the jaws.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scroll-chuck.
scroll-copy n. Scottish a rough draft or copy.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > draft or copy
scroll-copy1790
scroll1855
1790 W. Scott Let. 30 Sept. (1932) I. 17 I send you the scroll copy of an essay on the origin of the feudal system.
1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) II. Postscr. 381 These were taken from scroll copies in the possession of his Grace the present Duke.
scroll-creeper n. Architecture (see quot. 1825).
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1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. I. vi. 90* Crockets,..by professionalists termed ‘scroll-creepers’.
scroll-drum n. Mechanics a drum of tapering form.
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1875 R. F. Martin tr. J. Havrez On Recent Improvem. Winding Machinery 42 It would..be advisable..to give up all idea of using scroll drums like those used in England and in Germany.
scroll-finis n. a scroll containing the word ‘finis’.
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1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 123 That fair scroll-finis of a wicked book.
scroll-gall n. Botany a malformation consisting in the curling over of a leaf caused by an insect.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth
gall1398
elationc1420
dog rose1526
tumour?1541
to-growing1562
gall-nut1572
gall-apple1617
apple1668
by-fruit1682
witches' besom1849
witches' broom1856
mad-apple1868
nail gall1879
marble gall1882
gall-knob1892
scroll-gall1895
twig-gall1900
cecidium1902
1895 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants II. 530 Scroll-galls are caused by gall-mites, leaf~lice [etc.].
scroll-gear n. (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scroll-gear, a gear~wheel of spiral or snail form.
scroll-guard n. (see quot. 1824).
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1820 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 194 The keeper..hooked the gun by the scroll guard and brought it up.
1824 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 3) 54 Scroll-guard, an extra bow, continued from the guard [which defends the triggers], to steady the hand.
scroll-head n. = sense 5b.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Scroll-head.
scroll-iron n.
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1871 D. K. Clark in Z. Colburn et al. Locomotive Engin. xxxii. 303/1 Scroll-irons.
1886 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Scroll Irons, small brackets attached to the underside of railway wagons, to which the ends of the bearing springs are attached.
scroll-lathe n. (see quots.).
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 787/2 Scroll Lathe, one adapted to turn spiral and scroll work, such as balusters, table and piano legs.
scroll painting n. a painting on a scroll, of a style widely used in the East (esp. Japan); the practice of painting on scrolls.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > of specific size or shape
quadrant1651
easel-piece1706
easel-picture1841
micrograph1874
tondo1877
kakemono1890
scroll picture1899
scroll painting1911
machine1926
pata1948
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > others by medium or technique
velvet-painting1809
Poona work1816
Poona painting1817
Poona1821
lithochromy1837
rock painting1852
mural painting1879
splatter-work1897
sand-painting1902
scroll painting1911
dot painting1932
texturology1959
1911 L. Binyon Flight of Dragon x. 81 The makimono, or continuous long scroll~paintings of landscapes, admirably fulfilled the aim of Taoist art.
1936 Burlington Mag. Oct. 161/1 One of the most characteristic forms of Japanese pictorial art of the medieval periods, is that of treating a subject in long scroll-paintings.
1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 1225/1 Scroll painting with Buddhist themes was introduced to Japan from China in the 8th c.
1977 J. van de Wetering Japanese Corpse (1978) ix. 95 He has some very famous scroll paintings.
scroll picture n. a picture on a scroll (see scroll painting n.).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > of specific size or shape
quadrant1651
easel-piece1706
easel-picture1841
micrograph1874
tondo1877
kakemono1890
scroll picture1899
scroll painting1911
machine1926
pata1948
1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. xi. 300 The tokonama..held one scroll-picture of bats wheeling in the twilight.
1923 S. Merwin Silk (1924) 177 The larger scroll pictures were the last to appear from the bale.
scroll salt n. (see quot. 1977).
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > salt-cellar
saltfatc1000
salera1400
salt cellar1434
salt1493
drum salt1537
trencher salt1615
scroll salt1630
trencher salt cellar1681
standing salt1826
salt-sprinkler1864
salt-stand1869
salt-shaker1895
1630 in W. Prideaux Mem. Goldsmiths' Company (1896) I. 150 Complaint by Margaret Unwin..against Mr. Dickinson..for selling her a scroll salt untouched.
1949 N. M. Penzer in Apollo Ann. 48/1 (heading) Scroll salts.
1949 N. M. Penzer in Apollo Ann. 48/2 So far as known examples indicate, the scroll-salt in England lasted from about 1630–1690.
1977 J. Fleming & H. Honour Penguin Dict. Decorative Arts 715/2 Scroll salt, a salt-cellar of silver or pottery surmounted by three little scrolled arms.
scroll-saw n. a saw for cutting scrolls.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > other saws
handsaw1399
rug-saw1582
frame saw1633
nocksaw1659
bow-saw1678
lock saw1688
stadda1688
wire saw1688
panel saw1754
keyhole saw1761
web saw1799
table saw1832
rack saw1846
scroll-saw1851
fretsaw1865
back saw1874
foxtail-saw1874
tub-saw1874
gullet-saw1875
Swede saw1934
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 206 In the first story are located..the machinery for a scroll saw..and the apparatus by which the veneering is done.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2077/1 Scroll saw... The band-saw is a scroll-saw, and operates continuously.
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 473 On the outside of the door is tacked up a circle cut from thin wood with a scroll saw.
scroll-sawing n.
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1874 Spons' Dict. Engin. VIII. 3093 This class of sawing is usually termed sweep or scroll sawing for the heavier class of work, and fret sawing for the lighter or ornamental kinds.
scroll-wheel n. a wheel actuated by scroll-gear.
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1868 J. Turner Woollen Manuf. Assist. 18 To find revolutions of rim for 1 of scroll... Divide the product of the driven (1st sh. roller wheel, 1st short wheel, 1st scroll wheel and scroll) by the product of the drivers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
scrollv.
/skrəʊl/, U.S. /skroʊl/ 1. transitive. To write down in a scroll (scroll n. 1, 3). rare.
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society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > write on specific things [verb (transitive)] > write on scroll
scroll1606
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxix. 361 And from his mouth was scroold this Mott: So I do euery day.
1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 38 But thou in thy great Archiues scrolled hast In partes and whole, what euer yet hath past.
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 8 The motto which might be scrolled up over so many a splendid door-way.
2. † a. To draft, make a rough copy of. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [verb (transitive)] > draft
scrolla1732
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draft1828
rough-draft1844
a1732 T. Boston Acct. my Life (1908) xii. 305 I had brought up the Account of My Life as scrolled in shorthand characters, to the day of my beginning it.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 198 I'll scroll the disposition in nae time.
b. ? Scottish. To engross. Also absol.
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1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 296 He wad scroll for a plack the sheet, or she kend what it was to want. View more context for this quotation
3. intransitive for reflexive. To roll or curl up. Also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (intransitive)]
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foldc1330
writhea1413
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spire1607
wreathe1776
coil1798
scroll1868
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (intransitive)] > curl
locker?c1475
crisp1583
to roll up1658
curl1694
coffer1725
scroll1868
frizzle1886
quirl1944
1868 M. C. Lea Man. Photogr. 428 When gum mucilage is used, the addition of a very little glycerine will make it hold better, and diminish its tendency to separate or scroll.
1958 R. Macaulay Lett. to Sister (1964) 265 The new high altar..is very splendid... Gold leaves scrolling round the pillars.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 9 Oct. 25/4 My life..had a tendency to spread, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror.
4. intransitive. (See quot. 1962.)
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1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 149 An ‘overlap’ is made by starting to record each new disc half a minute or more before the old one is due to run out; the extent of the overlap is indicated by ‘scrolling’ (i.e. by momentarily increasing the cutter's rate of travel towards the centre of the disc).
Derivatives
ˈscrolling n. and adj. forming or decorated with scrolls.
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society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [noun] > drafting
scrollinga1732
drafting1856
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > curves or spirals
waved1547
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scrolled1603
undulate1658
undulated1664
vermiculated1707
gadrooned1726
scrolling1936
a1732 T. Boston Acct. my Life (1908) 332 With some difficulty I carried the scrolling of my letter some length.
1936 Burlington Mag. Jan. 40/1 Inlaid with mother-o'-pearl with a scrolling design.
1979 Times 24 Nov. 4/6 The body of the piece is richly encrusted with scrolling ormolu.
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5. Computing.
a. transitive. Originally, to move (text displayed on a screen) up or down as if it were on a scroll stretched vertically across the screen, in order to view other parts of the text; to effect such movement in (a screen, or part of it, which displays such text); also, in later use, to move (text or other displayed material) to the left, right, etc. (also without const.) in a similar manner. Cf. page v.2 5.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (transitive)] > display or print > move vertically
scroll1971
1971 Auerbach on Alphanumeric Displays xi. 82 The data on the screen can be scrolled up or down to bring in new data, line by line, at the bottom or at the top of the screen.
1974 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 43 251/1 Sequential windows behave like typewriter simulations (text is scrolled through them).
1978 Sci. Amer. Dec. 148/2 (advt.) These windows can even be scrolled individually, both vertically and horizontally, to a width of 160 columns and a length of several thousand lines.
1980 Practical Computing Sept. 60/1 The semicolon prompt accepts a command, holds it on screen during execution, and scrolls it up a line on completion.
1983 Your Computer Sept. 129/2 This is a programme to scroll part of the screen one byte at a time, laterally.
b. intransitive. Of displayed text, etc.: to move in this way (usually up or in a specified direction). Of a display: to move displayed material upwards by scrolling.
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1977 Broadcast 10 Oct. 12/2 Transmission is started by pressing the ‘Send’ key. The text will then scroll up to the end of the entered text.
1980 Practical Computing June 64/3 If an address is outside the currently-displayed fields, the window scrolls to portray that region of the table in which the address resides.
1983 R. Haskell Atari BASIC xiv. 129/2 The data value in location 53279 will keep being displayed and will scroll off the screen.
1985 J. Fuller Mass vii. 197 Ruffalino was leaning over the shoulder of a rewriteman, watching the story scroll out on the screen.
c. To move through text on a screen by scrolling, esp. vertically or horizontally.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (intransitive)] > move through text
page1971
scroll1979
society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (intransitive)] > move across screen
scroll1979
society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (transitive)] > display or print > move horizontally
scroll1979
1979 Computer Peripherals Feb. 9/5 The devices then permit the operator to..scroll through the memory a line at a time.
1981 Practical Computing Mar. 71/2 You can scroll in either direction, rolling text through the screen to reach the start or finish of the document.
1984 M. Grimes Dirty Duck iii. 25 There's that sonnet that looks like a suicide threat—want me to scroll up to that?
1989 A. Dillard Writing Life vi. 90 I have been doing some scrolling, here and elsewhere, scrolling up and down beaches and blank monitor screens.
d. The infinitive used attributively with the sense ‘scrolling’.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [adjective] > relating to monitor > allowing scrolling
scroll1982
scrollable1982
1982 What's New in Computing Nov. 20/4 The scroll rate can be varied between 60 and 1.9 line feeds per second.
1985 Practical Computing Aug. 72/2 The vertical and horizontal scroll bars are used to move to different parts of the keyboard or grid.
1986 V. G. Cerf in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications iv. 165 Most services today use screen or scroll mode command user interfaces.
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scroll bar n. Computing (in a graphical user interface) a thin section along the vertical or horizontal edge of a window allowing the user to scroll through material, either by dragging the cursor along the bar in the desired direction or by clicking on arrows at the top and bottom.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor > display or screen > organization of > device for
scroll bar1983
1983 InfoWorld 12 Dec. 73/3 It is possible to scroll both vertically and horizontally by positioning the cursor on one of two scroll bars displayed on the left side and bottom of the screen.
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 142/1 The screen can only look at part of the picture, so scroll bars are provided to allow you to pan around and look at the whole scene.
1992 CU Amiga May 178/2 On selecting your drive..the current window will list the disk's contents, and a scroll bar will allow you to move up and down the list if there are lots of files.
1999 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. g11/4 Mac and PC Control Panel programs..do not modify the windows' underlying architecture: familiar details like where a window's title and close box appear, and how the scrollbar looks.
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