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Scroll

noun

A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals). Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl.

A document that can be rolled up (as for storage). Synonym: roll.

verb

Move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen.

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"Scroll" Quotes from Famous Books

... only on three sides of the room. That opposite wall was taken up with three doors, the one small space being occupied by the table. Above the table on the old-fashioned paper, of a white satin gloss, traversed by an indeterminate green scroll, hung quite high a small gilt and black-framed ivory miniature taken in her girlhood of the mother of the family. When the lamp was set on the table beneath it, the tiny pretty face painted on the ivory seemed to gleam out with ...

— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

... sprung from a revolution; and England, seething with the toil of political thought, had produced at least two writers who in many directions saw as far and as clearly as we do now. But Cromwell's Constitution was rolled up like a scroll; Harrington and Lilburne were laughed at for a time and forgotten, the country confessed the failure of its striving, disavowed its aims, and flung itself with enthusiasm, and without any effective stipulations, at the ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... was sitting at the table studying over a scroll of parchment, when Myles entered his office and stood before ...

— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle

... a certain elaboration of form and design utterly inconsistent with this idea. The structure obtruded a bowed front to the street, with a curving line of small windows, surmounted by elaborate carvings and scroll work of vines and leaves, while below, in faded gilt letters, appeared the legend "Pontiac—Marseilles." The effect of ...

— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte

... sweat. At the same moment something struck me a blow on the top of the head, at the base of the spine and between the shoulder blades, and the ebony ladies and the white "factory" were burnt up in a scroll of flame. ...

— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis

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