scroll

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"I must admit this scroll is a great treasure, and I am reluctant to tear my eyes from it," he said.

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  1. noun A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.
  2. noun An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.
  3. noun A list or schedule of names.

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  • The other scroll was a portrait of a priest, a Chinese Zen master, according to Dorin. —  The Japanese Corpse - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-De Gier 05
  • A scroll compressor (also known as a scroll vacuum pump) uses two interleaved spiral-like vanes to compress archimedean spiral, or hybrid curves. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • We see from a representation of a Viol in the above-mentioned work that the sound-holes are better formed, the scroll is artistically designed, and the whole harmonious. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
  • There is a slight likeness about the sound-hole to the work of Francesco Ruggeri; but to the skilled in such matters, no feature interchangeable with Amati can be detected The workmanship is uniformly neat in execution; the scroll is the least successful part, being weak in character as compared with the body. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
  • The only feature of his work which can be considered as wanting in merit is the scroll, which is somewhat cramped, and fails to convey the meaning intended, viz., the following of Amati; but as this is a point having reference to appearance, and therefore solely affecting the connoisseur, it may be passed over lightly, and the more so when we consider that Banks was not the only clever workman who has failed in head-cutting. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
 

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  1. Middle English scrowle, alteration (influenced by rolle, roll) of scrowe, from Old French escroue, escroe, strip of parchment, scroll, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also scrowl, scrole, scrolle (also sometimes escroll, after escrow); from Middle English *scrolle, scrowle, scrawle, from Old French escrouelle, escroele, a strip, roll (cf. escrouete, escrowete, escroete, feminine, escrouet, masculine, a roll, scroll), diminutive of escroue, escroe, a strip, scroll: see scrow, of which scroll is thus ult. a diminutive form.
  2. from scroll, n.
 

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