| walk | 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. 4. 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. "A woody mountain . . . With goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers." (Milton) "He had walk for a hundred sheep." (Latimer) "Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain." (Bryant) 5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. "The mountains are his walks." (Sandys) "He opened a boundless walk for his imagination." (Pope) 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. 7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. 1. 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. "At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon." (Dan. Iv. 29) "When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus." (Matt. Xiv. 29) In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four. 2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. 3. 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. "I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again." (Shak) "When was it she last walked?" (Shak) 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." "Do you think I'd walk in any plot?" (B. Jonson) "I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth." (Latimer) 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. "We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us." (Jer. Taylor) 6. To move off; to depart. "He will make their cows and garrans to walk." (Spenser) To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. To walk after the flesh, to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. Origin: OE. Walken, probably from AS. Wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. Walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. Walken to full, OHG. Walchan to beat, to full, Icel. Valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. Valka to full, to roll, Dan. Valke to full; cf. Skr. Valg to spring; but cf. Also AS. Weallian to roam, ramble, G. Wallen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| walk-through angina | A circumstance in which despite continuing activity, such as walking, the pain of angina pectoris diminishes or disappears. (05 Mar 2000) |
| walker | 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. 2. That with which one walks; a foot. "Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown." (Chapman) 3. A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 4. [AS. Wealcere. See Walk, 3] A fuller of cloth. "She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought." (Percy's Reliques) 5. <zoology> Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Walker carcinoma | <tumour> A transplantable carcinosarcoma of the rat that originally appeared spontaneously in the mammary gland of a pregnant albino rat, and which now resembles a carcinoma in young transplants and a sarcoma in older transplants. Synonym: Walker carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walker carcinosarcoma | <tumour> A transplantable carcinosarcoma of the rat that originally appeared spontaneously in the mammary gland of a pregnant albino rat, and which now resembles a carcinoma in young transplants and a sarcoma in older transplants. Synonym: Walker carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walker tractotomy | A mesencephalic spinothalamic tractotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walker's chart | A system of plotting the relative foetal and placental sizes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walker, A Earl | <person> U.S. Neurologist, *1907. See: Walker tractotomy, Dandy-Walker syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walker, J | <person> Ainslie, English chemist, 1868-1930. See: Rideal-Walker coefficient, Rideal-Walker method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walker, James | <person> British gynecologist, *1916. See: Walker's chart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| walkers | Walking aids generally having two handgrips and four legs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| walking | <molecular biology, technique> A class of techniques for cloning large regions of a chromosome. (14 Nov 1997) |
| walking pneumonia | <chest medicine> A term used to describe Mycoplasmal pneumonia. most commonly affects those under 40 years of age and is commonly spread in families or closed populations. Symptoms include headache, muscle aches, fever, cough, chest pain, sore throat and rashes (in some individuals). Treatment is with antibiotics (for example erythromycin) (27 Sep 1997) |
| walkyr | See Valkyria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wall | 1. 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. "The plaster of the wall of the King's palace." (Dan. V. 5) 2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. "The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." (Ex. Xiv. 22) "In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls." (Shak) "To rush undaunted to defend the walls." (Dryden) 3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. 4. <chemical> The side of a level or drift. The country rock bounding a vein laterally. (Raymond) Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See Blank, Blind, etc. To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. To take the wall. To take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. "I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's." . <botany> Wall barley, a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. Origin: AS. Weall, from L. Vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. A nail. Cf. Interval. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |