walling

[Eng. wall (1), s.; -ing.] Walls in general; material for walls. "A few steps from the gate of the town is another bit of the ancient walling of Nepete." -Dennis: Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, i. 83. *wall-nut, s. [WALNUT.] Wal-loôn', s . & a . [A name given by the Teutons to the Celts of Flanders and the Isle of Walcheren; from the same root as A. S. wealh foreign; Ger. wälsche foreign; O. H. Ger. wal ah a foreigner.] [WALNUT, WELSH.] A. As substantive: 1. One of the descendants of the old Gallic Belgæ, who occupy the Belgian provinces of Hainault, Liège and Namur, Southern Brabant, Western Luxembourg, and a few villages in Rhenish Pru ia. 2. The language spoken in these provinces; it is a dialect or patois of French, with a great proportion of Gallic words preserved in it. B. As adj .: Pertaining or relating to the Walloons. Walloon Protestants, s. pl. Church Hist .: A branch of the French Calvinists, who settled in the Netherlands at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. They are gradually dying out as a separate body.