Waler 
Waler (wii'ler), n. [< Wnlen (see def.) + -«•!.] 
A horse impoi'ted from Australia, particularly 
from New South Wales. [Anglo-Indian.] 
For sale, a brown Waler gelding. 
Madras Hail, June 25, 18T3. (Vule and Buriiell.) 
My Waler was cautiously feeling his way over the loose 
shale. Jiudyard Kipling, Phantom Rickshaw. 
wale-wightt, «• [Also waU-iciyht, wa'-wight; 
also waled wight; < wale^, a., + wiyht'^, a.] 
Choice and active; chosen and brave. 
I( fifteen hundred waled vnght men 
You'll grant to ride with nie. 
Axdd Maitland (Child's Ballads, VI. 220). 
Walhalla, «. See ValhaUa. 
■waliel, fl. and n. See wali/^. 
■walie-, «. Same as ralir. 
'waling (wa'ling), n. [< wale'^ + -iiig^.'] The 
weaving of the web of a gabion with more than 
two rods at a time. 
walise (wa-lez'), n. A Scotch form of valise. 
'walk (wak), V. [Under this form are merged 
two vex'bs, one strong, the other weak: (a) < 
ME. icalken (pret. lOcJk, pi. weolken, welkcn, pp. 
walke, iwalken), < AS. wealcan (pret. weolc, pp. 
wealcen), move, roll, turn, revolve, = MD. 
walcken, cause to move, press, squeeze, strain, 
D. walken. felt (hats), = OHG. walchan, full 
(cloth), roll oneself, wallow, MHG. walken (> It. 
yualcare, prepare by stamping) = G. walken, 
full (cloth), felt (hats), (b) < ME. walkien (pret. 
walkede, walkide, pp. walked) = Icel. valka, 
volka, roll, stamp, roll oneself, wallow, = Sw. 
ralka, roll, full (cloth), = Dan. valke, full 
(cloth) ; prob. akin to L. valgus, bent, vergere, 
bend, turn, incline: see ■verge'^.'] I. intrans. 
It. To be inaction or motion; act; move; go; 
be current. 
3e ar knygt conilokest kyd of your elde, 
S'our worile <fe your worchip ^talkez ay quere [everywhere]. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1520. 
And ever as she went her toung did walke 
In fowle reproch. Spenser, V, Q., II. iv. 5. 
2. To be stirring; be abroad; move about. 
Jesus walked in Galilee ; for he would not walk in Jew- 
ry, because the Jews sought to kill him. John vii.,1. 
She walks in beauty, like the night 
Of cloudless climes and starry skies. 
Byron, She 'Walks in Beauty. 
3. To go restlessly about; move about, as an 
unquiet spirit or specter, or as one in a state 
of somnambulism. 
"When I am dead, 
For certain I shall walk to visit him, 
If he break promise with me. 
Beau, and FL, King and No King, 11. 1. 
4. To move off; depart. [Colloq.] 
"When he comes foorth, he will make theyr cowes and 
garrans to walke. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Browborough has sat for the place now for three Par- 
liamerits. ... I am told that he must walk if any body 
would go down who could talk to the colliers every night 
for a week or so. Trollope, Phineas Redux, i. 
5. To live and act or behave in any particular 
manner; conduct one's self ; pursue a particu- 
lar course of life. 
Fadres and Modres that walken in won 
Schul loue heore children. 
Holy Hood (E. E. T. S.), p. 143. 
Walk humbly with thy God. Micah vi. a 
6. To move with the gait called a walk. See 
walk, n., 5. 
O, let me see thee walk ; thou dost not halt. 
Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 258. 
He walks, he leaps, he ruus — is wing'd with joy. 
Cowper, Task, i. 443. 
7. To go or travel on foot : often followed by an 
accusative of distance : as, to walk five miles. 
In hia alepe hym thoghte 
That in a forest faste he welk to wepe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 1235. 
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. 
Shale, Hamlet, i. 1. 167. 
I was constrained to walke a foote for the space of seven 
miles. Coryat, Crudities, I. 92. 
I'll walk aside. 
And come again anon. 
Fletcher, "Wildgoose Chase, iv. 3. 
8. To move, after a manner somewhat analo- 
gous to walking, as an effect of repeated os- 
cillations and twistings produced by expan- 
sion and contraction or by the action of winds. 
Chimneys have been known to move in this 
manner — The ghost walks. .Sec glmt.—To walk 
agalnsttime. .Seed'rnci.— To walkawry. Seeaicri/. 
—To walk Into, to attack, (a) To a.ssiiult ; give a beat- 
ing or druljbing to. (h) To fall foul of veri)ally; give a 
scolding to. (c) To eat heartily of. [Vulgar in all senses.] 
6808 
There Is little Jacob, walking, as the popular phrase Is, 
ijlto a home-made plum-cake, at a most surprising pace. 
Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop, Ixviii. 
To walk over the course, in sporting, to go over a 
course at a walking or slow pace: said of a horse, runner, 
etc., coming alone to the scratch, and luiving to go over 
the course to win ; hence, figuratively, to gain an easy 
victory; attain one's object without opposition. Also to 
walkover. Compare wa(/ir-otier.— To walk Spanish. See 
Spanish.— To walk tall See (aK2._ Walk about, a mili- 
tary phrase used by British officers to sentinels, to waive 
the ceremony of being saluted. 
II, trans. If. To full, as cloth. 
Payment vj d., for the walHn of like eln [ell] of the said 
xlx eln & a half. 
Act. Dom. Cone. A. 1488, p. 95. (Jamieson.) 
2. To proceed or move through, over, or upon 
by walking, or as if by walking; traverse at a 
walk. 
If that same demon that hath guild thee thus 
Should with his lion gait walk the whole world. 
Shak., Hen. V., 11. 2. 122. 
Yes — she is ours — a home-returning bark ; . . . 
She walks the waters like a thing of life. 
Byron, Corsair, i. 3. 
3. To cause to walk; lead, drive, or ride at a 
walk. 
I will rather trust ... a thief to walk my ambling 
gelding. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 319. 
I am much indebted to you 
For danciug me off my legs, and then for walking me. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iii. 1. 
4. To escort in a walk ; take to walk. 
I feel the dew in my great toe ; but I would put on a cut 
shoe, that I might be able to walk you about; I may be laid 
up to-morrow. 
Caiman and Garrick, Clandestine Marriage, ii. 
Old Pendennis . . . walked the new .arrivals alx)Ut the 
park and gardens, aud showed them the carte du pays. 
Thackeray, Pendennis, Ivi. 
5. To move, as a box or trunk, in a manner 
having some analogy to walking, partly by a 
rocking motion, and partly by turning the ob- 
ject on its resting-point in such manner that at 
each rocking movement an alternate point of 
support is employed, the last one used being 
always in advance of the previous one in the 
direction toward which the object is to be 
moved. — 6. To send to or keep in a walk. See 
tcalk, 71., 8 (b). 
It is customary to send puppies out at three or four 
months of age to be kept by cottagers, butchers, small 
farmers, etc., at a weekly sum for each, which is called 
walking them. Dogs of Great Brit, and America, p. 197. 
To walk one's chalks. Sec chalk.— To walk the 
chalk, to walk the chalk-mark, to keep straight 
in morals or manners ; a figurative phrase, from the dif- 
ficulty a drunken man has in walking upon a straight line 
chalked upon the floor by his comrades to test his degree 
of sobriety. Compare I., 6.— To walk the hospitals, 
to attend the medical and surgical practice of a general 
hospital, as a student, under one or more of the regular 
stall of physicians or surgeons attached to such a hospital. 
— Walking the plajlk. See plank. 
walk (wak), n. [< ME. wale, walk, < AS. ge- 
wealc, a rolling, moving, = MHG. wale = Icel. 
vdlk, a tossing; from the verb.] 1. Manner of 
action; course, as of life; way of living: as, a 
person's walk and conversation. 
This is the melancholy walk he lives in. 
And chooses ever to inci-ease his sadness. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, iv. 3. 
Oh for a closer walk with God ! 
Cowper, Olney Hymns, i. 
2. Eange or sphere of action ; a department, 
as of art, science, or literature. 
There are strong minds in every walk of life, that will 
rise superior to the disadvantages of situation. 
A. Hamilton, The Federalist, XXXVI. 
She (Mrs. Cibber] made some attempts latterly in com- 
edy, which were not, however, in any degree equal to her 
excellence in the opposite walk. 
Life o/e«£)i(reprint 1887X p. 40. 
3. The act of walking for air or exercise ; a 
stroll : as, a morning walk. 
Make an early and long walk in goodness. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., I. 36. 
Nor walk by moon, 
Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 655. 
To vent thy bosom's swelling rise 
In pensive walk. 
Bums, The Vision, iL 
4. Manner of walking; gait; step; carriage. 
Catherine . . . watched Miss Thorpe's progress down 
the street from the drawing-room window; admired the 
graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her fig- 
ure and dress. JaTie Austen, Northanger Abbey, iv. 
5. The slowest gait of land-animals. In the walk 
of bipeds there is always one foot on the ground; in that 
of quadrupeds there are always two, and a part of the 
time three, feet on the ground. When very slow, or with 
heavy draft-animals when hauling, all four feet touch the 
gi'oinid at once for brief intervals. In the walk of ordinary 
quadrupeds the limbs move in diagonal paii-s, the move- 
ment of the pair not being so nearly sinuiltaneons as in 
walk 
Consecutive Positions of a Horse in Walking. 
(After instantaneous photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.) 
the trot, and varying much in this respect with the differ- 
ent degrees of speed and with the individual habits of the 
aninial. Compare cut under run. 
Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard and come 
home in a coranto ? Sfy very walk should be a jig. 
Shak., T. N., i. 3. 138. 
He stands erect; his slouch becomes a tealk; 
He steps right onward, martial in his air. 
Cowper, Task, iv. 639. 
6. A piece of ground fit to walk in; a place in 
which one is accustomed to walk; a haunt. 
His walk 
The fiery serpent fled and noxious worm. 
MUton, P. R., L 311. 
We intend to lay ambushment in the Indian's icalks, to 
cut oflf their men. 
JV. Thomag (Appendix to New England's Memorial, p. 430). 
7. A place laid out or set apart for walking; 
an avenue; a promenade. 
I saw a very goodly walke in Mantua roofed over and 
supported with thirty nine faire pillars. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 148. 
SpeciBcally — (d) An avenue set with trees or laid out in 
a grove or wood. 
Get ye all three into the box-tree; Malvolio's coming 
down this ivalk. Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 19. 
Up that long walk of limes I past 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, IzzzviL 
(M) pi. Grounds ; a park. 
He hath left you all his lecUks, 
His private arbours and new-planted orchards, 
On this side Til>er. Shak., J. C, iii. 2. 252. 
(c) A path in or as in a garden or street ; a sidewalk : as, a 
flagged waik ; a plank walk. 
He strayed down a walk edged with box ; with apple- 
trees, pear-trees, and cherry-trees on one side, and a bor- 
der on the other, full of all sorts of old-f;ishioned flowers. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xx. 
(d) In public parks and the like, a place or way for retire- 
ment : as, gentlemen's walk. 
8. A piece of ground on which domestic ani- 
mals feed or have exercise. 
He eats the eggs for breakfast and the chickens for din- 
ner, goes in for fancy breeds, aud runs up an ornamental 
walk for them. . A. Jessopp, Aready, i. 
Specifically — (a) A tract of some extent where sheep feed ; 
a pasture for sheep ; a sheep-walk. See gheep-run. 
He had walk for a hundred sheep. 
Latimer, 1st Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
(&) A place where puppies are kept and trained for sport- 
ing purposes. 
Preference should be given to the home rearing if prop- 
erly carried out, because it has all the advantages of the 
walk without those disadvantages attending upon it. 
Dogs 0/ Great Britain and Ameriea, p. 197. 
(c) A pen in which a gamecock is kept with a certain 
amount of liberty, but separated from other cocks, to get 
him in condition and disposition for fighting. 
9. A district hahitually served by a hawker or 
itinerant vender of any commodity. 
One man told me . . . that he had thoughts at one time 
of trying to establish himself in a cats'-meat walk, and 
made inquiries into the nature of the calling. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 10. 
10. In the London Royal Exchange, any part 
of the ambulatory that is specially frequented 
by merchants or traders to some particular 
country. Simmonds. — llf. A district in a royal 
forest or park marked out for hunting purposes. 
I will keep . . . my shoulders for the fellow of this wwijt 
[(■. e.. Heme, the hunter, in Windsor Park]. 
Shak., M. W. of W., v. 5. 29. 
They like better to hunt by stealth in another man's 
walk. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 571. 
12. A ropewalk. — 13t. In falconry, a flock or 
wisp of snipe Cock of the walk. See coci-i.— Heel- 
and-toe walk, a walk in which the heel of one foot is 
