scrolls

Noun

scroll (plural scrolls)

1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
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. Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
   • I lose myself
     in a flawed henna plant
     jutting toward the scroll.
     Its rose-pink eyes burst
     off the stems.1985, Peter Balakian, “The Oriental Rug”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for...
4. 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. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
5. The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.

   Synonyms:

   fiddlehead

6. A skew surface.

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