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Wallabies
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Wallaby
() Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.
Wallah
() A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
Wallaroo
() Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.
Wallbird
() The spotted flycatcher.
Waller
() One who builds walls.
Waller
() The wels.
Wallerian degeneration
() A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
Wallet
() A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
Wallet
() A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
Wallet
() Anything protuberant and swagging.
Walleteer
() One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.
Wall-eye
() An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.
Wall-eye
() An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.
Wall-eye
() A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).
Wall-eye
() The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Wall-eyed
() Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
Wallflower
() A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.
Wallflower
() A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.
Wallhick
() The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Walling
() The act of making a wall or walls.
Walling
() Walls, in general; material for walls.
Walloons
() A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.
Wallop
() To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
Wallop
() A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
Walloped
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Walloping
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Wallop
() To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
Wallop
() To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
Wallop
() To be slatternly.
Wallop
() To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
Wallop
() To wrap up temporarily.
Wallop
() To throw or tumble over.
Wallop
() A thick piece of fat.
Wallop
() A blow.
Wallowed
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Wallowing
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Wallow
() To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
Wallow
() To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
Wallow
() To wither; to fade.
Wallow
() To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
Wallow
() A kind of rolling walk.
Wallower
() One who, or that which, wallows.
Wallower
() A lantern wheel; a trundle.
Wallowish
() Flat; insipid.
Wall-plat
() The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.
Wall-sided
() Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).
Wallwort
() The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).
Walm
() To roll; to spout; to boil up.
Walnut
() The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.