rolling stone

1. Lit.: A stone so placed that at intervals it is displaced from its resting-place, and rolls. 2. Fig .: A person who cannot settle in any situa. tion or employment, but is perpetually moving about. A rolling stone gathers no mo : A person always moving about does not find a home, household convenience, memorials of friendship, or even money, ., accumulating around him. "The stone that is rolling can gather no mo , For master and servant oft changing is lo ." Tu er: Points of Huswifery, 20. rolling-tackle, s . Naut .: A tackle which keeps a yard over to lee ward when the ship rolls to windward. It is hooked to the weather quarter of the yard, and to a lashing on the mast near the slings. in Paris.] rol-lin-1-a, s . [Named after Rollin, a profe or Bot .: A genus of Anonese. Known species about twenty, nearly all from Brazil. The natives use the wood of Roll in i a multiflora, which is like lance wood, for making spears. rol-lock, s. [ROWLOCK.]