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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_169475" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_169475" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_78985" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_78985" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A game of chance, very popular in [[France]] last century, now at Monaco; played with a revolving disc and a ball. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.
(2): ( v. t.) To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.
(3): ( n.) 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.
(4): ( n.) 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.
(5): ( n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
(6): ( n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A game of chance, very popular in France last century, now at Monaco; played with a revolving disc and a ball.
