WALK
WALK, verb intransitive [G., to full, to felt hats; a fuller; to stir, to be agitated, to rove, to travel, to wander, to roll. Our ancestors appropriated the verb to moving on t...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WALK-MILL
WALK-MILL, noun Wauk-mill. A fulling mill. [Local.]
WALKABLE
WALKABLE, adjective Waukable. Fit to be walked on. [Not much used.]
WALKER
WALKER, noun Wauker.1. One who walks.2. In our mother tongue, a fuller.3. In law, a forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.4. One who d...
WALKING
WALKING, participle present tense Wauking. Moving on the legs with a slow pace; moving; conducting ones self.WALKING, noun Wauking. The act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.
WALKING-STAFF
WALKING-STAFF, WALKING-STICK, noun A staff or stick carried in the hand for support or amusement in walking.
WALKING-STICK
WALKING-STAFF, WALKING-STICK noun A staff or stick carried in the hand for support or amusement in walking.
WALL
WALL, noun [Latin, stake, post, probably originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men.]1. A work or structure of stone, ...
WALL-CREEPER
WALL-CREEPER, noun A small bird of the genus Certhia; the spider-catcher.
WALL-CRESS
WALL-CRESS, noun [wall and cress.]1. A plant of the genus Arabis.2. A plant of the genus Turritis.
WALL-EYE
WALL-EYE, noun [wall and eye.]1. A disease in the crystaline humor of the eye; the glaucoma.2. In horses, an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray color.
WALL-EYED
WALL-EYED, adjective Having white eyes.
WALL-FLOWER
WALL-FLOWER, noun [wall and flower.] A plant of the genus Cheiranthus; a species of stock gillyflower.
WALL-FRUIT
WALL-FRUIT, noun [wall and fruit.] Fruit which, to be ripened, must be planted against a wall.
WALL-KNOT
WALE-KNOT, WALL-KNOT noun A single wale-knot is made by untwisting the ends of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand; then passing the second over the end of the firs...
WALL-LOUSE
WALL-LOUSE, noun [wall and louse.] An insect or small bug. [Latin]
WALL-MOSS
WALL-MOSS, noun A species of moss growing on walls.
WALL-PENNYWORT
WALL-PENNYWORT, noun A plant of the genus Cotyledon.
WALL-PEPPER
WALL-PEPPER, noun A plant of the genus Sedum.
WALL-PIE
WALL-PIE, noun A plant, a species of Asplenium.
WALL-SIDED
WALL-SIDED, adjective Having sides nearly perpendicular, as a ship.
WALL-SPRING
WALL-SPRING, noun A spring of water issuing from stratified rocks.
WALL-WORT
WALL-WORT, noun A plant, the dwarf elder or danewort; a species of Sambucus.WALL, verb transitive1. To inclose with a wall; as, to wall a city.2 To defend by walls.And terror of...
WALLED
WALLED, participle passive Inclosed or fortified with a wall.
WALLER
WALLER, noun One who builds walls in the country.
WALLERITE
WALLERITE, noun A mineral, or variety of clay, found in small compact masses of the size of a nut, white and opake, or yellowish and translucent.
WALLET
WALLET, noun1. A bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey or march; a knapsack.2. Any thing protuberant and swagging; as wallets of flesh.