walise

[VALISE.] ( Scotch.) walk ( l silent), *walck, *walcke, *walke (pa. t. walked, welk , pa. par. walked , * walke ), v. i. & t. [A. S. wealcan (pa. t. weólc , pa. par. wealcen )= to roll, to to one's self about, to rove about; cognate with Dut. walken to work or make a hat; O. Dut. walcken to pre or squeeze; Icel. válka , volk a = to roll, to stamp, to roll about; válka to ing about; Sw. valka to roll, to full, to work; Danish valke to full, to mill; Ger. walken =to full; O. H. Ger. walchan =to full, to roll or move about; Latin volvo to roll.] A. Intransitive : 1. To advance by alternate steps, setting one foot before the other, without running, or so that one foot is set down before the other is taken up; to step along. ( Wycliffe : Mark ii.) 2. To go or travel on foot; to ramble; especially, to move or go on foot for recreative exercise or the like. "Will you walk with me about the town?" Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, i. 2. 3. To go, to come, to step. "Pray you, walk near." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, ii. 2. 4. To move about as a spirit or specter, or as one in a state of somnambulism. "The spirits o' the dead may walk again." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iii. 3. 5. To move off; to push off; to depart. (Colloq.) 6. To live, act, and behave in any particular manner; to conduct one's self; to pursue a particular course of life. ( Micah vi. 8.) *7. To act, to move. "In him the spirit of a hero walk'd." Words worth: Excursion, bk. vii. *8. To be in action or motion; to act, to wag. (Spenser: F. Q., II. iv. 5.) 9. To roll, to turn. "His rolling eies did never rest in place, But walkte eachwhere for feare of hid mis chaunce." Spenser: F. Q., III. xii. 15. *10. To revolve, to turn. "From euery coast that heauen walks about, Haue thither come the noble mart i all crew." Spenser: F. Q. , I. vii. 45. *11. To be stirring; to be or go abroad; to mix in ociety. ""Tis pity that thou livest To walk where any honest men resort." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, v. IMG:content-0627.png:[blocks in formation] 5. The length of way or circuit through which one walks. ( Shakesp.: Macbeth, iii. 3.) 6. A piece of ground fit to walk or stroll on; a place in which one is accustomed to walk. 7. A place laid out or set apart for walking; an avenue, promenade, pathway, or the like: (1) An avenue set with frees, or laid out in a grove or wood. ( Shakesp .: Twelfth Night , ii. 5.) (2) A garden-path. 8. The state of being in training, as a young hound. "The puppies have been taken in from walk ."- Pall Mall Gazette. 9. A rope-walk. 10. A district habitually served by a hawker or walk . itinerant vendor of any commodity; as, a milkman's 11. A district or piece of ground in which animals graze; a tract of some extent where sheep feed; a pasture for sheep; a sheep-walk, a sheep-run. *12. In the London Royal Exchange, any portion of the ambulatory which is specially frequented by merchants or traders to some particular country. ( Simmonds .) *13. Manner or course, as of life; way of living; as, a person's walk and conversation. *14. Intercourse. "Oh! for a closer walk with God." Cowper: Olney Hymns, i. 15. Space, range; sphere of action; a department, as of art, science, or literature. "To achieve fame in the higher walks of art."-Ca ell's Technical Educator , pt. xi., p. 323. *walk-mill, *waulke-mill, s. A fulling-mill. "A waulke - mill or fullers worke-house." - P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xxxv., ch. xi.