Walk

wawk, v. i. [walked (wawkt), walking.] move along on foot, advance by steps, go slower or faster rate, but without running; to or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; stirring, be abroad, go restle ly about, — things or persons expected to remain quiet, sleeping or dead person; to behave, conduct self. — v. t. To pa through or upon, perambulate to cause to walk or step slowly; to lead, drive, ride with a slow pace. — n. Act of walking vance without running or leaping; act of walking for air or exercise; manner of walking; gait; that in or through which one walks; place tance walked over; a place or region in which mals may graze; frequented track; habitual of action; sphere; conduct; course of action; with ior.— To xcalk the plank. To walk off the plank into house, the water and be drowned,— fr. the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled captives to walk off into the water; to vadrifted cate an office by compulsion.— Walk'ing-gen'tleman,; a -la'dy, n. {Theater.) One who plays a subordinate child. part, requiring a good appearance, but few words.— is not -leaf, -lef, n. {Bot.) An Amer. owner; fern, whose fronds taper into — slender prolongations, which often root at the apex, giving rise to To claim; new fronds. {Entom.) A flatdetened orthopterous insect of sevor eral species, found in E. Indies, Australia, and S. Amer.: it is al- To lalied to the mantis, and in general expre appearance it closely resembles a leaf. — staff, n. A staff carried in the hand for support or amuseimmement in walking; a cane. — stick, of the n. A cane. {Entom.) An insect part of having a long, slender, wingle bebody, resembling a piece of stick. Walking-leaf — Wall, wawl, n. A solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around.a field, park, the town, etc.; one of the upright inclosing parts of a — building or room. pi. Fortifications in general; the works for defense.— v. t. [walled (wawld), -ling.] To inclose with, or defend by, walls, or as if by walls; to close or fill with a wall. — To drive to the colloq. wall. To bring to extremities, push to extremes. — sleeves, To go to the iv. To * ^^< ^z\ be hard pre ed or.^- ^SBSS^A the driven; to be the to stop weaker party. — To person take the w. To take stay; the inner side of a for, walk, that is, the side next the wall; to Waif take the precedence. table; a — WaU'-creep'er, n. as tea- A small insectivo- A ferous bird, which climbs over the vertical surfaces of rocks and walls; the To be to cease to spider -catcher.— -flow'er, n. {Bot.) or A cruciferous Euroto put pean evergreen plant, to life of several species, at which grows wild in/ old walls, stony^ or an places, etc., and is cultivated in garden s Wall-creeper of the persons for its fragrant flowers. A lady who lacks invitations to dance at a ball, Wake'and is left unoccupied at the side of the room. — To -fruit, n. Fruit which, to be ripened, must be planted excite against a wall. — plate, n. {Arch.) A timber placed or horizontally upon a wall, on which rest joists, etc. [See Queen-post or Timber.] — tent,w. A tent with water. upright cloth sides. animal Wall a chi an, wawl-la'kY-an, a. Of, or pert, to, Wall a of chia, or to its inhabitants. — n. A native or inhabexitant of Wall a chia, in Roumania; a Wallach; a Romance tongue or dialect spoken in Wall a chia, etc. whole with Wallet, woriet, n. A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as for carrying the nece aries for a jour- To ney; a peddler's pack; bag-like purse; pocket-book on at a for keeping money about the person; anything promove tuberant and swagging. to be Wall-eye, wawKi, n. An eye in which the iris is of a said of very light gray or whitish color, — said usually of as a horses; an eye in which the white is very large and one's distorted. —Wall '-eyed, -Id, a. Having a wall-eye.; Wall-flower, -fruit, -tent. See under Wall. or Walloon, wal-loon', n. One of the descendants of the; adancient Gallic Belga? who live in Belgium and Rhenish Pru ia and speak a dialect of French; their lanstep; guage. — a. Of, or pert, to, etc. or dis- Wallop, woKlup, v. i. [-loped (-lupt), -loping.J To aniboil with a continued bubbling; to waddle; to gal place lop; to be slatternly. —?', t. To beat, flog, whip. behav- Wallow, woKlo, v. i. [-lowed (-lod), -lowing.] To fare; end, eve, term; Tn, Ice; 5dd, tone, 3r; 497 WALNUT roll one's self about, as in mire or on other substances; to flounder; to live in filth or gro vice. — Wal'lower, n. One who wallows. (Much.) A lantern-whe l, or trundle. See Trundle. 509