Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WALK'-MILL, n. [wauk'-mill.]

A fulling-mill. [Local.] – Cyc.

WALL, n. [L. vallum; Sax. weal; D. wal; G. wall; Ir. and Gaelic, balla and fal; Russ. val; W. gwal. In L. vallus is a stake or post, and probably vallum was originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men. The primary sense of vallus is a shoot, or that which is set, and the latter may be the sense of wall, whether it is from vallus, or from some other root.]

1. A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security. Walls of stone, with or without cement, are much used in America for fences on farms; walls are laid as the foundations of houses and the security of cellars. Walls of stone or brick form the exterior of buildings, and they are often raised round cities and forts as a defense against enemies.
2. Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense. I rush undaunted to defend the walls. – Dryden.
3. A defense; means of security or protection. – 1 Sam. xxv. To take the wall, to take the upper or most honorable place. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montagne's. – Shak.

WALL, v.t.

1. To inclose with a wall; as, to wall a city.
2. To defend by walls. And terror of his name that walls us in From danger. – Denham.
3. To fill up with a wall.

WALL'-CREEP-ER, n.

A small bird of the genus Certhia; the spider-catcher. – Ed. Encyc.

WALL'-CRESS, n. [wall and cress.]

1. A plant of the genus Arabia. – Cyc.
2. A plant of the genus Turritis. – Lee.

WALL'ED, pp.

Inclosed or fortified with a wall.

WALL'ER, n.

One who builds walls in the country. – Cyc.

WALL'ER-ITE, n.

A mineral, or variety of clay, found in small compact masses of the size of a nut, white and opake, or yellowish and translucent. – Cleaveland.

WAL'LET, n.

1. A bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey or march; a knapsack.
2. Any thing protuberant and swagging; as, wallets of flesh. – Shak.

WALL'-EYE, n. [wall and eye.]

1. A disease in the crystaline humor of the eye; the glaucoma.
2. In horses, an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray color. – Cyc.

WALL'-EY-ED, a.

Having white eyes. – Johnson.

WALL'-FLOW-ER, n. [wall and flower.]

A plant of the genus Cheiranthus, a stock gillyflower.

WALL'-FRUIT, n. [wall and fruit.]

Fruit which, to be ripened, must be planted against a wall.

WALL'ING, n.

Walls in general; materials for walls.

WALL'ING, ppr.

Inclosing or fortifying with a wall.

WALL'-LOUSE, n. [wall and louse.]

An insect or small bug. – Ainsworth.

WALL'-MOSS, n.

A species of moss growing on walls.

WAL'LOP, v.i. [formed on G. wallen: Sax. wealan, to boil or bubble; D. opwallen; Eng. to well. See Well.]

To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling of the liquor, with noise.

WAL'LOP-ING, ppr.

Boiling with a heaving and noise.

WAL'LOW, n.

A kind of rolling walk.

WAL'LOW, v.i. [Sax. wealwian; Sw. välfva; Goth. walugan; G. walzen. The latter is the Eng. welter, but of the same family; L. volvo; Sp. volver; Russ. valyu, baliayu. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, &c.]

1. To roll one's body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water. Swine wallow in the mire.
2. To move heavily and clumsily. Part huge of bulk, / Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, / Tempest the ocean. [Unusual.] – Milton.
3. To live in filth or gross vice; as, man wallowing in his native impurity. – South.

WAL'LOW, v.t.

To roll one's body. Wallow thyself in ashes. – Jer. vi.

WAL'LOW-ED, pp.

Rolled in the mire.

WAL'LOW-ER, n.

1. One that rolls in mire.
2. A wheel that turns the trundle-head in a mill.

WAL'LOW-ING, ppr.

Rolling the body on any thing.