Word Meanings - ROULETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. (more info) 1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a

Additional info about word: ROULETTE

the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. (more info) 1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game. A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.

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  Chancellorship. Gower.
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• PLANE TREE
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• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• TRACHENCHYMA
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• CYCLOIDEI
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• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• TRACHELIPOD
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• ROUNDABOUTNESS
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• TRACTORATION
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  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
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• BLATTER
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  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
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• BLATTEROON
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• AFFIX
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