*walk*

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

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

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

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

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

n. A ropedancer. [ 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 ]

n. (Railroads) A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
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See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
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See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
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See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
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See conversing.
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See dawning.
See decaying.
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See depending.
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See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
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See discriminating.
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See dispensing.
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See doubting.
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See ebbing.
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See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
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See hoping.
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See importing.
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See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
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See loving.
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See meriting.
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See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

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See observable.
See observant.
See obstructive.
See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
See ordinary.
See ordinate.
See original.
See ornamental.
See orthodox.
See ostentatious.
See pacifiable.
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See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
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See participant.
See passionate.
See pastoral.
See pathetic.
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See permanent.
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See prejudicate.
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See productive.
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See prosperous.
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See rational.
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See removable.
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See requisite.
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See resolvable.
See respectable.
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[ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees
Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amid the sound of steps that beat
The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountains are his walks. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

9. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Walked p. pr. & vb. n. Walking. ] [ 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. vālka 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. √130. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead
May walk again. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

When was it she last walked? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [ Obs. ] “Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do you think I'd walk in any plot? B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To move off; to depart. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. --
To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v. 7. --
To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. --
To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3. --
To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i. 7. --
To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. --
To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. --
To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. [ 1913 Webster ]

As we walk our earthly round. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. “ I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. [ AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot. ] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [ Obs. or Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. To move in a manner likened to walking. [ Colloq. ]

She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. C. E. Craddock.

To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave. --
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That with which one walks; a foot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ AS. wealcere. See Walk, v. t., 3. ] A fuller of cloth. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She cursed the weaver and the walker
The cloth that had wrought. Percy's Reliques. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (construction, tunneling) A shift superintendent or assistant superintendent who supervises several shifters{ 4 } and their crews. Since these crews are usually separated by some distance, the walker is frequently seen walking between them. Also called walking boss. [ RDH ]

7. A low frame having casters or wheels, designed to enclose a baby on its sides and provide support while the baby is learning to walk; it usually has a seat so that the baby can sit while not walking.
Syn. -- go-cart, baby-walker. [ PJC ]

8. A low rectangular frame of light metal about waist high, usually having two horizontal arms mounted on four legs with an open rear, designed to be carried or pushed in front of a person whose legs are impaired, to provide support while walking; it may have wheels on two of the four legs. [ PJC ]

a. & n. from Walk, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Walking beam. See Beam, 10. --
Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. --
Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. --
Walking fish (Zool.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as Ophiocephalus marulius, become over four feet long. They have a special cavity over the gills lined with a membrane adapted to retain moisture to aid in respiration, and are thus able to travel considerable distances over the land at night, whence the name. They construct a curious nest for their young. Called also langya. --
Walking gentleman (Theater), an actor who usually fills subordinate parts which require a gentlemanly appearance but few words. [ Cant ] --
Walking lady (Theater), an actress who usually fills such parts as require only a ladylike appearance on the stage. [ Cant ] --
Walking leaf. (a) (Bot.) A little American fern (Camptosorus rhizophyllus); -- so called because the fronds taper into slender prolongations which often root at the apex, thus producing new plants. (b) (Zool.) A leaf insect. See under Leaf. --
Walking papers, or
Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office; as, to get one's walking papers, i. e. to be dismissed or fired. [ Colloq. ] Bartlett. --
Walking stick. (a) A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane. (b) (Zool.) A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. --
Walking wheel (Mach.), a prime mover consisting of a wheel driven by the weight of men or animals walking either in it or on it; a treadwheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill. ] A fulling mill. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Baseball) Game-ending and game-winning; such as to end the game immediately, and allow the players to walk off the field; -- of hits, especially home runs, which occur in the last half of the ninth or a later inning, which put the home team ahead of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey. This occurs in baseball because, when the last half of the ninth inning arrives, if the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is not played, the winner of the game having already been decided. Likewise, as soon as the home team gets ahead in the score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning, the game is ended. [ Baseball jargon ] [ PJC ]

Curtis's homer over the left-center-field fence beat the Braves and was the first walk-off homer by a Yankee in the World Series since Mickey Mantle slugged one against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 3 in 1964. Jack Curry (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1999 p. D4) [ PJC ]

There are so many people in here who are happy for Chad. We know what he's been through. Those hits could make Chad Curtis's whole year. When you hit a walk-off homer in the World Series, that's something he's going to remember for a long time. Paul O'Neill (the Yankee outfielder, quoted by Jack Curry in the New York Times, Oct. 27, 1999 p. D4) [ PJC ]

n. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (colloquially) A one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
Syn. -- walk; cake-walk. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]