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Waldheimia
() A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.
Wale
() A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Wale
() A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
Wale
() A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
Wale
() Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
Wale
() A wale knot, or wall knot.
Wale
() To mark with wales, or stripes.
Wale
() To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
Walhalla
() See Valhalla.
Waling
() Same as Wale, n., 4.
Walked
() of Walk
Walking
() of Walk
Walk
() To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
Walk
() To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
Walk
() To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
Walk
() To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
Walk
() To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
Walk
() To move off; to depart.
Walk
() To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
Walk
() To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
Walk
() To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
Walk
() The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
Walk
() The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
Walk
() Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
Walk
() That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
Walk
() A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
Walk
() Conduct; course of action; behavior.
Walk
() The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Walkable
() Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.
Walker
() One who walks; a pedestrian.
Walker
() That with which one walks; a foot.
Walker
() A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
Walker
() A fuller of cloth.
Walker
() Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
Walking
() a. & n. from Walk, v.
Walk-mill
() A fulling mill.
Walk-over
() In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
Walkyr
() See Valkyria.
Wall
() A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
Wall
() A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
Wall
() A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
Wall
() An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
Wall
() The side of a level or drift.
Wall
() The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
Walled
() of Wall
Walling
() of Wall
Wall
() To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
Wall
() To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
Wall
() To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Wallaba
() A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.