Word Meanings - DROLLIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A droll. Glanvill.

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• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• DROLLER
  A jester; a droll. Glanvill.
• DROLL
  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.
• DROLLERY
  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 puppet show; also, a puppet. Shak.
• DROLLINGLY
  In a jesting manner.
• BEADROLL
  A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling,