Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Walk (4)

Walk (?), n. 1. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.2. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent...

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Walk (5)

Walk, v. t. 1. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk.2. To move in a manner likened to walking.She walked a spinning wheel into the house, ...

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Walk-mill

Walk″–mill′ (?), n. [Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill.] A fulling mill. Halliwell.

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Walk-over

Walk″–o′ver (?), n. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, vi...

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Walkable

Walk″a‐ble (?), a. Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. Swift.

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Walker

Walk″er (?), n. 1. One who walks; a pedestrian.2. That with which one walks; a foot.Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.3. (Law) A forest officer appointed to wal...

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Walking

Walk″ing, a. & n. from Walk, v.Walking beam. See Beam, 10. — Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. — Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. — Walking...

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Walkyr

Wal″kyr, n.(Scand. Myth.) See Valkyria.

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Wall

Wall (?), n.(Naut.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.Wall knot, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the fir...

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Wall (2)

Wall (?), n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. � a nail. Cf. Interval.]1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, r...

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Wall (3)

Wall (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Walled (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Walling.] 1. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. “Seven walled towns of strength.” Shak.The king of Thebes, Amphio...

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Wall Street

Wall Street. A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; — so called from the old wall which extende...

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Wall-eye

Wall″–eye′ (?), n. [See Wall-eyed.]1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; — said usually of horses. Booth.☞ Jonson has defined wall-eye to be “a d...

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Wall-eyed

Wall″–eyed′ (?), a. [Icel. valdeygðr, or vagleygr; fr. vagl a beam, a beam in the eye (akin to Sw. vagel a roost, a perch, a sty in the eye) + eygr having eyes (from auga eye). ...

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Wall-plat

Wall″–plat′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.

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Wall-sided

Wall″–sid′ed (?), a.(Naut.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; — said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under T...

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Wallaba

Wal″la‐ba (?), n.(Bot.) A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles....

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Wallaby

Wal″la‐by (?), n.; pl.Wallabies (#). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller...

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Wallachian

Wal‐la″chi‐an (?), a. [Also Walachian, Wallach, Wallack, Vlach, etc.] Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. — n. An inhabit...

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Wallack

Wal″lack (?), a. & n. See Wallachian.

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Wallah

Wal″lah (?), n.(Zoöl.) A black variety of the jaguar; — called also tapir tiger. [Written also walla.]

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Wallaroo

Wal′la‐roo″ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

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Wallbird

Wall″bird′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The spotted flycatcher.

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Waller

Wall″er (?), n. One who builds walls.

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Waller (2)

Wall″er, n.(Zoöl.) The wels.

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Wallerian degeneration

Wal‐le″ri‐an de‐gen′er‐a″tion (?). (Med.) A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; — so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account o...

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Wallet

Wal″let (?), n. [OE. walet, probably the same word as OE. watel a bag. See Wattle.] 1. A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a j...