scroll

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.
• noun An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.
• noun A list or schedule of names.
• noun An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.
• noun Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.
• noun Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.
• intransitive verb To inscribe on a scroll.
• intransitive verb To roll up into a scroll.
• intransitive verb To ornament with a scroll.
• intransitive verb Computers 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.
• intransitive verb To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen.
• intransitive verb To appear onscreen and roll by.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A roll of parchment or paper, or a writing formed into a roll; a list or schedule.
• noun 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.
• noun An ornament of a spiral form; an ornament or appendage resembling a partly unrolled sheet Of paper.
• noun In furniture and woodwork, a carved volute or spiral, especially such an ornament forming the arm of a sofa, rocking-chair, or the like.
• noun The ribbon-like label proceeding from the mouths of speakers in old tapestries and illustrations.
• noun In heraldry, the ribbon-like appendage to a crest or escutcheon on which the motto is inscribed. Also escroll.
• noun 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.
• noun In geometry, a skew surface, or non-developable ruled surface.
• noun The mantling or lambrequin of a tilting-helmet.
• noun In anatomy, a turbinate bone; a scroll-bone.
• To write down in a scroll or roll of parchment or paper; commit to writing; inscribe.
• To draft; write in rough outline. See scroll, n., 2.
• To roll up or form into a scroll.
• To ornament with scrolls or scrollwork.
• To roll or curl up.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
• noun (Arch.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
• noun U.S. 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.
• noun (Geom.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.
• noun (Arch.) See under Linen.
• noun (Mach.) an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws.
• noun See under Saw.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
• noun architecture An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
• noun Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
• noun geometry a skew surface.
• verb computing, transitive To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
• verb computing, intransitive To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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