wallsend

[See def.] A superior variety of English coal, so called from having been dug at Wallsend, on the Tyne, near the spot where the long been exhausted. wall of Severus ended. The original mines have wall-wort, wale-wort, subst. [A. S. wal = slaughter, from growing at the village of Slaughter ford, in Wilts hire, where, it is said, a Danish army was destroyed; or from A. S. wealh foreign. ( Prior .)] Bot .: (1) Parietaria officinal is [PELLITORY]; (2) Sedum acre [STONECROP]; (3) Sambucus ebulus [DANEWORT]; (4) Cotyledon umbilicus .