walker ( l silent)

[Eng. walk, v.; -er.] 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. "They are not always the le pleasant to the walker or spectator."-Reynolds: Discourses, No. 13. *2. That with which one walks; a foot. "Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown." Chapman: Homer's Iliad, xx. 36. *3. Forest Law : An officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. *4. One who deports himself in a particular man ner. 5. One who walks or fulls cloth; a fuller. (See extract under WALK, v . , B. 3.) 6. One who trains young hounds. "In giving the toast 'Succe to foxhunting, and the puppy walkers of England.'"- Field , Aug. 27, 1887. walker-ite ( l silent), s. [After Dr. Walker of Edinburgh; suff.- ite ( Min .).] Min.: The same as PECTOLITE (q. v.). Walk-er-Iteş ( l silent), s. pl . [See def.] Church Hist.: An Irish body of San deman i ans, established by a minister named Walker, who seceded from the original body early in the nineteenth century. walk-ing (I silent), *walck-ynge, *walk-ynge, pr. par., a. & 8. [WALK, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The act of one who walks. 2. A mode or manner of living; course of life. ( Deut . ii. 7.) 3. The act or proce of fulling cloth. In walking, the center of gravity in succe ive steps describes a series of consecutive curves, with their convexities upward, very much resembling the line of flight of many birds. The movement of the top of the head is similar to that traced by the center of gravity. ( Foster : Physiol.) walking-beam, s. [BEAM (1), s., II. 3.]