Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Walleteer

Wal′let‐eer″ (?), n. One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. Wright.

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Wallflower

Wall″flow′er (?), n.1. (Bot.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it v...

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Wallflower (2)

Wall″flow′er, n.(Bot.) In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); — called also native wallflower.

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Wallhick

Wall″hick′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

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Walling

Wall″ing, n. 1. The act of making a wall or walls.2. Walls, in general; material for walls.Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a b...

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Walloons

Wal‐loons″ (?), n. pl.; sing. Walloon (�). [Cf. F. wallon.] A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liége, and Luxembou...

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Wallop

Wal″lop (?), v. i. [Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gallop.] To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

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Wallop (2)

Wal″lop, n. A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.

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Wallop (3)

Wal″lop, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Walloped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Walloping.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. √147. See Well, n. & v. i.]1. To boil with a cont...

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Wallop (4)

Wal″lop, v. t. 1. To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.2. To wrap up temporarily.3. To throw or tumble over.

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Wallop (5)

Wal″lop, n. 1. A thick piece of fat. Halliwell.2. A blow.

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Wallow

Wal″low (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Wallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wallowing.] [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. √...

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Wallow (2)

Wal″low, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. “Wallow thyself in ashes.” Jer. vi. 26.

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Wallow (3)

Wal″low, n. A kind of rolling walk.One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.

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Wallow (4)

Wal″low (?), n. 1. Act of wallowing.2. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.

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Wallower

Wal″low‐er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, wallows.2. (Mach.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

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Wallowish

Wal″low‐ish, a. [Scot. wallow to fade or wither.] Flat; insipid. Overbury.

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Wallwort

Wall″wort′ (?), n.(Bot.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

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Walm

Walm (?), v. i. [AS. weallan; cf. wælm, billow. √147.] To roll; to spout; to boil up. Holland.

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Walnut

Wal″nut (?), n. [OE. walnot, AS. wealh-hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name o...

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Walrus

Wal″rus (?), n. [D. walrus; of Scand. origin; cf. Dan valros, Sw. vallross, Norw. hvalros; literally, whale horse; akin to Icel. hrosshvalr, AS. horshwæl. See Whale, and Horse.]...

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Walter

Wal″ter (?), v. i. [See Welter.] To roll or wallow; to welter.

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Waltron

Wal″tron (?), n. A walrus. Woodward.

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Walty

Wal″ty (?), a. [Cf. Walter to roll.] Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. Longfellow.

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Waltz

Waltz (?), n. [G. walzer, from walzen to roll, revolve, dance, OHG. walzan to roll; akin to AS. wealtan. See Welter.] A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a...

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Waltz (2)

Waltz, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Waltzed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waltzing.] To dance a waltz.

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Waltzer

Waltz″er (?), n. A person who waltzes.