Definitions for scrolls

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scrolls scroll

Spelling: [skrohl]

IPA: /skroʊl/

Scrolls is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in scrolls (cllorss).

Definitions for scrolls

noun

1. a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it:
2. something, especially an ornament, resembling a partly unrolled sheet of paper or having a spiral or coiled form.
3. a list, roll, roster, or schedule.
4. (in Japanese and Chinese art) a painting or text on silk or paper that is either displayed on a wall (hanging scroll) or held by the viewer (hand scroll) and is rolled up when not in use. Compare kakemono, makimono.
5. the curved head of a violin or other bowed instrument.
6. a note, message, or other piece of writing.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut into a curved form with a narrow-bladed saw.
2. Computers. to move (text) up, down, or across a display screen, with new text appearing on the screen as old text disappears.

verb (used without object)

1. Computers. to move text vertically or horizontally on a display screen in searching for a particular section, line, etc.

Origin of scrolls

1350-1400; Middle English scrowle; blend of scrow, aphetic variant of escrow and rowle roll

Examples for scrolls

Flour it, roll it out thin again, and then roll it into a scroll.

Inked onto his ribs is a single rifle bayoneted into the dirt with names listed on a scroll—his dead friends.

Sorcery reads backwards—and I saw him so read from that scroll of his.

And if you scroll down the complete Midas List, some visible trends begin to emerge.

Roll up the paste, with the fruit spread on it, into a scroll.

A good padre in France read to us from a scroll the whole truth of the matter.

I was able to scroll through my feed and read nothing but tweets about Ferguson.

A crowd was gathered about him listening, while he read from a scroll in his hands.

Now you can scroll to the next direction on your recipe without getting batter or sauce all over your device.

The solution they came up with was the scroll, which let viewers walk through the painting as they unfurled it.