1. A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.
2. an ancient book or volume written on such a roll.
3. A list or schedule of names.
4. an ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in ionic and corinthian capitals.
5. music the curved head on an instrument of the violin family.
6. heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.
7. to inscribe on a scroll.
8. to roll up into a scroll.
9. to ornament with a scroll.
10. computer science to cause (displayed text or graphics) to move up, down, or across the screen so that a line of text or graphics appears at one edge of the screen for each line that moves off the opposite edge: scroll a document; scroll a page of text.
11. computer science to cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document.
12. computer science to appear onscreen and roll by: "the information scrolls so fast it's unreadable” ( creative computing).

1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
2. an ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
3. scroll-shaped end of a violin.
4. a skew surface.
5. to change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
6. to move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.

1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
2. an ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
3. A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some states allowed as a substitute for a seal.
4. same as skew surface. see under skew.

1. to write down in a scroll or roll of parchment or paper; commit to writing; inscribe.
2. to draft; write in rough outline. see scroll, n., 2.
3. to roll up or form into a scroll.
4. to ornament with scrolls or scrollwork.
5. to roll or curl up.
6. A roll of parchment or paper, or a writing formed into a roll; a list or schedule.
7. in a restricted sense, a draft or outline of what is afterward to be written out in full: also used attributively: as, a scroll minute.
8. an ornament of a spiral form; an ornament or appendage resembling a partly unrolled sheet of paper.
9. in furniture and woodwork, a carved volute or spiral, especially such an ornament forming the arm of a sofa, rocking-chair, or the like.
10. the ribbon-like label proceeding from the mouths of speakers in old tapestries and illustrations.
11. in heraldry, the ribbon-like appendage to a crest or escutcheon on which the motto is inscribed. also escroll.
12. in hydraulics, a spiral or converging ajutage or waterway placed around a turbine or other reaction water-wheel to equalize the rate of flow of water at all points around the circumference, by means of the progressive decrease in the capacity of the waterway.
13. in geometry, a skew surface, or non-developable ruled surface.
14. the mantling or lambrequin of a tilting-helmet.
15. in anatomy, a turbinate bone; a scroll-bone.

1. a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
2. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
3. move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen