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Controller
Controller Con*trol"ler, n.
1. (Elec.) Any electric device for controlling a circuit or
system; specif.:
(a) An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for
throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in
an automatic device for constant current regulation.
(b) A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the
current to, or shutting it off from, an electric
motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway
car.
2. (Mach.) A lever controlling the speed of an engine; --
applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as
of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.
Controllership
Controllership Con*trol"ler*ship, n.
The office of a controller.
Dandy rollerDandy Dan"dy, n.; pl. Dandies. [Cf. F. dandin, ninny, silly
fellow, dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to
E. dandle. Senses 2&3 are of uncertain etymol.]
1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to
dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
2. (Naut.)
(a) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is
set.
(b) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small
boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
3. A dandy roller. See below.
Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush.
Dandy fever. See Dengue.
Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached
several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at
each end.
Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making
paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the
paper. DrollerDroll Droll, a. [Compar. Droller; superl. Drollest.] [F.
dr[^o]le; cf. G. & D. drollig, LG. drullig, D. drol a thick
and short person, a droll, Sw. troll a magical appearance,
demon, trolla to use magic arts, enchant, Dan. trold elf,
imp, Icel. tr["o]ll giant, magician, evil spirit, monster. If
this is the origin, cf. Trull.]
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity;
amusing and strange.
Syn: Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous;
ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry;
laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable,
Comical. Laughable is the generic term, denoting
anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter;
comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in
comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in
comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous;
droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to
persons or things which excite laughter by their
buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical
adventure; a droll story. Droller
Droller Droll"er, n.
A jester; a droll. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
DrolleriesDrollery Droll"er*y, n.; pl. Drolleries. [F. dr[^o]lerie.
See Droll.]
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery;
droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
The rich drollery of ``She Stoops to Conquer.' --
Macaulay.
2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as:
(a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.]
I bought an excellent drollery, which I
afterward parted with to my brother George of
Wotton. -- Evelyn. DrolleryDrollery Droll"er*y, n.; pl. Drolleries. [F. dr[^o]lerie.
See Droll.]
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery;
droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
The rich drollery of ``She Stoops to Conquer.' --
Macaulay.
2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as:
(a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.]
I bought an excellent drollery, which I
afterward parted with to my brother George of
Wotton. -- Evelyn. Ductor rollerDuctor Duc"tor, n. [L., fr. ducere to lead.]
1. One who leads. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
2. (Mach.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or
coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. --Knight.
Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or
supplies ink to another roller. --Knight. Enroller
Enroller En*roll"er, n.
One who enrolls or registers.
Extoller
Extoller Ex*tol"ler, n.
One who extols; one who praises.
Friction rollersFtiction Ftic"tion, n. [L. frictio, fr. fricare, frictum,to
rub: cf. F. friction. See Fray to rub, arid cf.
Dentifrice.]
1. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of
another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the
body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to
excite the skin to healthy action.
2. (Mech.) The resistance which a body meets with from the
surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding
motion, or to rolling motion.
3. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or
work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard
progress.
Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich
a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the
hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane.
Note: This angle varies for different bodies, and for planes
of different materials.
Anti-friction wheels (Mach.), wheels turning freely on
small pivots, and sustaining, at the angle formed by their
circumferences, the pivot or journal of a revolving shaft,
to relieve it of friction; -- called also friction
wheels.
Friction balls, or
Friction rollers, balls or rollers placed so as to receive
the pressure or weight of bodies in motion, and relieve
friction, as in the hub of a bicycle wheel.
Friction brake (Mach.), a form of dynamometer for measuring
the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving
shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its
friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by
observing the force required to keep the clamp from
revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake.
Friction chocks, brakes attached to the common standing
garrison carriages of guns, so as to raise the trucks or
wheels off the platform when the gun begins to recoil, and
prevent its running back. --Earrow.
Friction clutch, Friction coupling, an engaging and
disengaging gear for revolving shafts, pulleys, etc.,
acting by friction; esp.:
(a) A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so
forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that
the two will revolve together; as, in the
illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust
forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the
other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by
the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives.
(b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of
being made fast on its shaft, is held by friction and
can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in
starting.
Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for
striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip
the hammer rod.
Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under
Frictional.
Friction machine, an electrical machine, generating
electricity by friction.
Friction meter, an instrument for measuring friction, as in
testing lubricants.
Friction powder, Friction composition, a composition of
chlorate of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which
readily ignites by friction.
Friction primer, Friction tube, a tube used for firing
cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the
friction powder or composition with which the tube is
filled.
Friction wheel (Mach.), one of the wheels in frictional
gearing. See under Frictional. FrivollerFrivol Friv"ol, v. i.
To act frivolously; to trifle. --Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er,
Friv"ol*ler, n. [All Colloq.] Ground roller 10. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of small ground snakes of the
family Tortricid[ae].
Ground roller (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied
genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.
Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are
attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.]
Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for
separating the seeds from the fiber.
Roller mill. See under Mill.
Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place
of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating
upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice. Inking rollerInking Ink"ing, a.
Supplying or covering with ink.
Inking roller, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink
over forms of type, copperplates, etc.
Inking trough or table, a trough or table from which the
inking roller receives its ink. Knoller
Knoller Knoll"er, n.
One who tolls a bell. [Obs.] --Sherwood.
leaf rollerTortrix Tor"trix, n. [NL., fr. L. torquere, tortum, to twist.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small moths of
the family Tortricid[ae], the larv[ae] of which usually
roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also
called leaf roller.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which
are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytal[ae]) is
handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive
by the natives of Brazil for a necklace. Logroller
Logroller Log"roll`er, n.
One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.
--The. Nation.
LollerLollard Lol"lard, n. [LL. Lollardi, Lullardi, from Walter
Lolhardus, a German; cf. LG. & D. lollen to mumble, to hum,
sing in a murmuring strain; hence, OD. lollaerd a mumbler, i.
e., of prayers or psalms, which was prob. the origin of the
name. See Loll, Lull.] (Eccl. Hist.)
(a) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
(b) One of the followers of Wyclif in England. [Called also
Loller.]
By Lollards all know the Wyclifities are meant, so
called from Walter Lollardus, one of their teachers
in Germany. --Fuller. LollerLoller Loll"er, n. [See Loll.]
1. One who lolls.
2. An idle vagabond. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
3. A Lollard. Piping rollerPiping Pip"ing (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From Pipe, v.]
1. Playing on a musical pipe. ``Lowing herds and piping
swains.' --Swift.
2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
of boiling fluids.
Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller
(Zo["o]l.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina,
esp. G. tibicen, which is black and white, and the size
of a small crow. Called also caruck.
Piping frog (Zo["o]l.), a small American tree frog (Hyla
Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early
spring.
Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]
--Milton. PollerPoller Poll"er, n. [From Poll]
One who polls; specifically:
(a) One who polls or lops trees.
(b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.]
(c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex>.
(d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as
a voter. Proller
Proller Proll"er, n.
Prowler; thief. [Obs.] --Chapman.
Road roller Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come
unto a quiet rode [road]. --Spenser.
On, or Upon, the road, traveling or passing over a
road; coming or going; on the way.
My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the
road. --Cowper.
Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of
the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a
humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.]
The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly
called. --The century.
Road book, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances.
Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.
Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers,
for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and
compact. -- often driven by steam.
Road runner (Zo["o]l.), the chaparral cock.
Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on
common roads.
To go on the road, to engage in the business of a
commercial traveler. [Colloq.]
To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.
To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the
highways.
Syn: Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage;
course. See Way. RollerRoller Roll"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder,
sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in
husbandry and the arts.
2. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage
used in surgery.
3. (Naut.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in
upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
4. A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling
cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
5. (Print.) A cylinder coated with a composition made
principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of
type are inked previously to taking an impression from
them. --W. Savage.
6. A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the
roller of a man.
7. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
8. (Zo["o]l.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf
roller. see Tortrix.
9. [CF. F. rollier.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species
of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciad[ae].
The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over
or ``tumbling' in flight.
Note: Many of the species are brilliantly colored. The common
European species (Coracias garrula) has the head,
neck, and under parts light blue varied with green, the
scapulars chestnut brown, and the tail blue, green, and
black. The broad-billed rollers of India and Africa
belong to the genus Eurystomus, as the oriental
roller (E. orientalis), and the Australian roller, or
dollar bird (E. Pacificus). The latter is dark brown
on the head and neck, sea green on the back, and bright
blue on the throat, base of the tail, and parts of the
wings. It has a silvery-white spot on the middle of
each wing. Roller bearing
Roller bearing Roll"er bear"ing (Mach.)
A bearing containing friction rollers.
Roller bolt 10. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of small ground snakes of the
family Tortricid[ae].
Ground roller (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied
genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.
Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are
attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.]
Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for
separating the seeds from the fiber.
Roller mill. See under Mill.
Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place
of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating
upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice. Roller coaster
Roller coaster Roller coaster
An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a
long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.
Roller gin 10. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of small ground snakes of the
family Tortricid[ae].
Ground roller (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied
genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.
Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are
attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.]
Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for
separating the seeds from the fiber.
Roller mill. See under Mill.
Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place
of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating
upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice. Roller millMill Mill, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln,
mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[=i], mul[=i]n,
Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone;
prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth.
malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour,
and cf. Moline.]
1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as
grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough,
or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a
bone mill.
2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from
vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in
combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a
cider mill; a cane mill.
3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
4. A common name for various machines which produce a
manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material
by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a
sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by
which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a
cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in
relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design
in a softer metal, as copper.
7. (Mining)
(a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings,
from which material for filling is obtained.
(b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
9. A pugilistic. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.
Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint,
etc.
Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly
from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant
iron in the mill.
Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace.
Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of
a mill.
Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones.
Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill
wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.
Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after
turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth.
Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a
mill.
Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by
crushing grain between rollers.
Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by
stamps.
To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or
discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of
knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state. Roller mill 10. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of small ground snakes of the
family Tortricid[ae].
Ground roller (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied
genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.
Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are
attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.]
Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for
separating the seeds from the fiber.
Roller mill. See under Mill.
Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place
of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating
upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice.
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