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a. Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being controlled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From control, v. t.: cf. F. contrôleur. ] 1. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great controller of our fate
Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [ More commonly written controller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Elec.) Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; specif.: (a) An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation. (b) A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. (Mach.) A lever controlling the speed of an engine; -- applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The office of a controller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + controllable: cf. F. incontrôlable. ] Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South. [1913 Webster]

adj. same as automated.
Syn. -- automated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An individual or a member of a group that patrols an area. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.
Syn. -- patrol. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Strolled p. pr. & vb. n. Strolling. ] [ Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about, Icel. strj&unr_;ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G. straucheln. Cf. Struggle. ] To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. [ 1913 Webster ]

These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To rove; roam; range; stray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strolls; a vagrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. troll. Cf. Droll, Trull. ] (Scand. Myth.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trolled p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling. ] [ OE. trollen to roll, F. trôler, Of. troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G. trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. trotter to trot (cf. Trot.). Cf. Trawl. ] 1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then doth she troll to the bowl. Gammer Gurton's Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troll the brown bowl. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will you troll the catch ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. [ 1913 Webster ]

With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take part in trolling a song. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides, ” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A trolley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troll plate (Mach.), a rotative disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who trolls. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A motor car powered by electricity drawn from a trolley, and thus constrained to follow the trolley lines. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Trolley line, (a) A trolley (f). (b) The path along which a trolley car runs. [ PJC ]

. A heavy conducting wire on which the trolley car runs and from which it receives the current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. trou-madame pigeon holes. ] The game of nineholes. [ Written also trolmydames. ] [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. also Trull. ] A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of loose dress for women. [ Obs. ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (a) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [ Eng. ] (b) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [ Eng. ] (c) (Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. (d) (Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. (e) A trolley car. [ 1913 Webster ]