wallower (woloer)

[ IMG:content-2034.png:[blocks in formation] Cotgrave. As unwelcome to any true conceit as sluttish morsels or wal lowish potions to a nice stomack. Sir T. Over bury , Characters, A Dunce. wall-painting (wâl'pan ting), n. 1. The painting of the surface of a wall, or of kindred surfaces, with ornamental designs or figure-subjects, as a decoration. Such painting is usually cla ified as encaustic or as fresco or tempera painting.-2. An example or work of painting of this kind. wall-paper (wal' pā" pér), n. Paper, usually decorated in color, used for pasting on walls or ceilings of rooms; paper-hangings. Modern wall-papers are printed from blocks by hand or in color printing machines. A great variety of styles are now used, including plain papers in single colors, striped pat terns, geometrical patterns, and arabesque, flower, pictorial and conventional, and even comic designs. Large pictorial papers, with life-sized figures, were popular fifty years ago, and are still made in limited quantities. The styles also include a variety of surface-effects, as sat in finish, flock-papers, and watered, embo ed, and stamped patterns. Gilding and bronzing are also largely used. Cartridge-papers are thick, heavy papers in single colors. wall or post. E. H. Knight.-4. A plaque, like that of a sconce; especially, a mirror the face of which projects the bracket or arm supporting a candle. wall-pocket (wal'poket), n. A flat pouch or receptacle for newspapers or other articles, designed to be hung upon the wall of a room. wall-rib (wal'rib), n. In medieval vaulting, a common English name for the longitudinal rib at one end of a vaulting-compartment; an arc formeret. In the fully developed style there is no wall at the ends of the compartments, but a window filling the whole space; one of the other names is therefore to be preferred to that of wall - rib.