The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe. J. A. Symonds.

Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. Tennyson.

Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down
The beauty of these florins new and bright. Chaucer.

To roll one's self, to wallow. -- To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession. -- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. Shak.

And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. Dryden.

What different sorrows did within thee roll. Prior.

Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. Pope.

To roll about, to gad abroad. [Obs.]

Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about. Chaucer.

Long roll (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line. -- Master of the rolls. See under Master. -- Roll call, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers. -- Rolls of court, of parliament (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and which constitute the records of such public body. -- To call the roll, to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present.

Syn. -- List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See List.