wall cress (walkres)

A plant of the genus Arabis, particularly those outside of the section Turritis, the tower-mustard; rock-cre . A white flowered species, A. albida, a dwarf hardy plant, has been much cultivated; also the allied A. alpina, and with little merit A. procurrens. A. blepharophylla of California is desirable for its rose-purple flowers. The species when ornamental are suited to rock-work, but many are of a weedy character. IMG:content-2025.jpg:[blocks in formation] above the floor. wall-drill (wal'dril), n. See drilll. walled1 (wald), p . a . [ walled ; walll + -ed2.] 1. Provided with a wall or walls; in- closed or fortified with a wall; fortified. We are bigger in batell, haue a burg he stronge, Wele wall it for the werre, watris aboute. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2121. The approach to Traü is a speaking commentary on the state of things in days when no one but the lord of a private fortre could be safe anywhere within a walled town. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 177. 2. In her.: (a) Accompanied by the appearance of stone masonry. Thus, a pale walled is flanked on each side with the representation of quoins, as if at the corner of a building. The blazon should state how many of these quoins there are on each side. ( b ) Covered with lines representing or indicating stone masonry: noting the field or an ordinary. Walled plain, Same as ring - plain. walled2 (wâld), a. [ A man with a red goatee,. rather undersized, and with one eye a little walled . E. Eggleston, The Century, XXXV. 845.