in manufactory, something wound and folded up in a cylindrical form.

Few stuffs are made up in rolls, except satins, gaufres, and crapes; which are apt to break, and take plaits not easy to be got out, if folded otherwise. Ribbons, laces, gallons, and paduas of all kinds, are also thus rolled.

A roll of tobacco, is tobacco in the leaf, twisted on the mill, and wound twist over twist about a stick or roller. A great deal of tobacco is sold in America in rolls of various weights; and it is not till its arrival in England, Spain, France, and Holland, that it is cut.

A roll of parchment, properly denotes the quantity of 60 skins.

The ancients made all their books up in the form of rolls; and in Cicero's time the libraries consisted wholly of such rolls.

in Law, signifies a schedule or parchment which may be rolled up by the hand into the form of a pipe.

In these schedules of parchment, all the pleadings, memorials, and acts of court, are entered and filed by the proper officer; which being done, they become records of the court. Of these there are in the exchequer several kinds, as the great wardrobe roll, the cofferer's roll, the subsidy-roll, &c.

Roll is also used for a list of the names of persons of the same condition, or of those who have entered into the same engagement. Thus a court-roll of a manor, is that in which the names, rents, and services, of each tenant are copied and enrolled.

Calves-head ROLL, a roll in the two temples in which every bencher is taxed yearly at 2s. every barrister at 1s. 6d. and every gentleman under the bar at 1s. to the cook and other officers of the house, in consideration of a dinner of calves' heads provided in Easter-term.

Muster ROLL, that in which are entered the foldiers of every troop, company, regiment, &c. As soon as a foldier's name is written down on the roll, it is death for him to desert.

ROLLS-Office, is an office in Chancery-lane, London, appointed for the custody of the rolls and records in chancery.

Master of the Rolls. See Master of the Rolls.

Rider ROLL, a schedule of parchment frequently sewed or added to some part of a roll or record.

ROLLS of Parchment, are the manuscript registers or rolls of the proceedings of our ancient parliaments, which before the invention of printing were all engrossed on parchment, and proclaimed openly in every country. In these rolls are also contained a great many decisions of difficult points of law, which were frequently in former times referred to the decision of that high court.

or Roller, is also a piece of wood, iron, brass, &c. of a cylindrical form, used in the construction of lever machines, and in several works and manufactures.

Thus in the glass manufacture they have a running-roll, which is a thick cylinder of cast brass, which serves to conduct the melted glass to the end of the table on which large looking-glasses, &c. are cast.

Founders also use a roll to work the sand which they use in making their mould.

The presses called calendars, as serving to calendar stuffs withal, consist, among other essential parts, of two rollers. It is also between the two rollers that the waves are given to silks, mohairs, and other stuffs proper to be tabbied.

Impressions from copper-plates are also taken by passing the plate and paper between two rollers. See Rolling press PRINTING.

Rolls, in fluting-mills, &c. are two iron instruments of a cylindrical form, which serve to draw or stretch out plates of gold, silver, and other metals.

Rolls, in sugar-works, are two large iron barrels which serve to bruise the canes, and to express the juice. These are cast hollow, and their cavities are filled up with wood, the cylinders of which are properly the rollers.