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n. a framework on small wheels or casters designed to support small children while they are learning to walk, and usually having a fabric support that permits the child to sit. Called also walker and go-cart.
Syn. -- walker, go-cart [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

See under 1st Bank, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bestowing; disposal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at a seaside. The more elaborate boardwalks at shore resorts are lined with many commercial retail establishments, on the side of the walk opposite the ocean. “On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City” [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ AS. Bretwalda, br&unr_;ten walda, a powerful ruler. ] (Eng. Hist.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
Syn. -- bush violet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A secluded or private walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

He moves afterward in by-walks. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A narrow walkway projecting from a stage into the seating area of a theater; it is used, e. g. by models displaying clothes on it at a fashion show. Called also runway. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. A narrow walkway high in the air to allow workers access to parts of a structure otherwise difficult to reach. Catwalks are located, e.g. above a stage in a theater, between parts of a building, along the side of a bridge, on the outside of a railroad car, on the outside of a large storage tank, etc. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ OF. citoal, F. zedoaire. See Zedoary. ] Same as Zedoary. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cob clay mixed with straw + wall. ] A wall made of clay mixed with straw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A phantasmic or “astral” body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Per. kotwāl. ] The chief police officer of a large city. [ East Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. [ 1913 Webster ]

An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
Syn. -- stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, lumper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. dwale, dwole, deception, deadly nightshade, AS. dwala, dwola, error, doubt; akin to E. dull. See Dull, a. ] 1. (Bot.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sleeping potion; an opiate. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Inwall. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

So now all three one senseless lump remain,
Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gad to walk about + well. ] (Zool.) A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [ Written also gaddwell. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it. ] (Naut.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [ Written also gunnel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE., also hyghwhele, highawe. ] The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inwalled p. pr. & vb. n. Inwalling. ] To inclose or fortify as with a wall. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The gromwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of misbestowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding backward on the spot; as, Michael Jackson perfected the moonwalk in the 1980s. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of Earth's moon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater. [ Written also modwall. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Narwhal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To walk over or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who cleans pots; a scullion. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A review. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ropedancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) (a) The common tern. (b) The storm petrel. (c) The gannet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ AS. sæweall. ] A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cetewale. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. Cetewale. ] (Bot.) A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or Valeriana Pyrenaica). [ Obs. ] [ Written also setwal. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Walking in one's sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any activity by a human outside of the protective environment of a spacecraft while it is in outer space, requiring a space suit to protect the person from the vacuum and other hazards of space. [ PJC ]

n. A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Swell. Swelled. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]