scroll

A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.

An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

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.

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.

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.

To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen.

She scrolled the offending image out of view.

She kept scrolling until she found the desired paragraph.

To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.

The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.

The piano plays on. I watch those little rectangles as they scroll down from the top.

To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.

Hey, stop scrolling!

It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl^([sic]) could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.

To draft; to write in rough outline.