Wall

wawl, n. an erection of brick, stone, . for a fence or security: the side of a building: ( fig. ) defence, means of security: in mining, one of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode: ( an at. ) a paries or containing structure or part of the body: ( pl. ) fortifications.— v.t. to enclose with, or as with, a wall: to defend with walls: to hinder as by a wall.— n. Wall′-clock , a clock hung on a walk.— adj. Walled , fortified.— ns. Wall′er , one who builds walls; Wall′-flower , a plant with fragrant yellow flowers, found on old walls: a woman at a ball who keeps her seat, presumably for want of a partner—applied sometimes to men; Wall′-fruit , fruit growing on a wall; Wall′ing , walls collectively: materials for walls; Wall′-knot , a nautical method of tying the end of a rope.— adj. Wall′-le .— ns. Wall′-liz′ard , -newt , a gecko; Wall′-mo , the yellow wall-lichen: the stone-crop; Wall′-paint′ing , the decoration of walls with ornamental painted designs; Wall′-pā′per , paper usually coloured and decorated, for pasting on the walls of a room; Wall′-piece , a gun mounted on a wall; Wall′-plate , a horizontal piece of timber on a wall, under the ends of joists, .; Wall′-space ( arch it. ), a plain expanse of wall; Wall′-spring , a spring of water running between stratified rocks; Wall′-tow′er , a tower built into and forming part of a line of fortification or a fortified city-wall; Wall′-tree , a tree trained against a wall; Wall′-wort , the European dwarf elder; Hang′ing-wall , that wall of the vein which is over the miner's head while working, the opposite wall being called the Foot′-wall .— Wall a rope , to make a wall-knot on the end of a rope.— Drive to the wall , to push to extremities; Go to the wall , to be hard pre ed: to be pushed to extremes; Hang by the wall , to hang up neglected: to remain unused; Push , or Thrust , to the wall , to force to give place; The wall , the right of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another person, as in the phrase to Give , or Take , the wall . [A.S. weall , wall ; Ger. wall , both from L. vallum , a rampart— vallus , a stake.]