wall 
3. Something which resembles or suggests a 
wall : as, a wall of armed men ; a wall of fire. 
Within this ii-alt of flesh 
There is a soul counts thee her creditor. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 3. 20. 
Compass'd round by the blind wall of night. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
4. A defense ; means of security or protection. 
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the 
while we were with them keeping the sheep. 
1 .Sam, XXV. 16. 
5. In milling, one of the surfaces of rock be- 
tween which the vein or lode is inclosed; the 
countrj', or country rock, adjacent to the vein. 
See t^ein, if the vein is, as is usually the case, inclined 
at an angle, the wall which is over the miner's head, or 
overhangs him, is Ciilled the hanging wall; that which is 
under him, the foot-wall. In coal-mining the rock adja- 
cent to the bed of coal which is being worked is called the 
roof or the fioor, according as it is above or beneath, and 
this is the case whether the strata be horizontal or in- 
clined at an angle. Tlie walls of a vein are called in some 
parts of England the cheekg. 
6. In her., a bearing having some resemblance 
to a wall, usually embattled, it generally covers 
a large part of the escutcheon, and the line of division 
between it and tlie field may be bendwise, or bendwise 
sinister. It is, therefore, a division of the field by an em- 
battled or crenelle line, the lower part being masoned, 
and having usually an arched doorway represented in it. 
7. In «H«<. and c'ooV., a paries; an extended in- 
vesting or containing structure or part of the 
body: as, a aeW-wall ; the loalls of the chest or 
abdomen: generally in the plural. — 8. In cor- 
als, the proper outer investment of the vis- 
ceral chamber, whether of a single corallum or 
of a single corallite of a compound corallum. 
Hard structures upon the inside of the wall are the endo- 
theca; upon the outside, the exotheoa. The condition of 
the wall varies greatly : it is pervious, as in the Perforata, 
or impervious, as in the Aporosa; smooth, or variously 
costate, striate, etc. ; and it may be indistingtiishably 
united with the ccenenchyme, or replaced more or less 
completely by the epitheca. 
9. Same as wall-knot — Bridge wall. Same as 
bridged, n., 4.— Counterscarp, dwarf, grout wall. 
See the qualifying words. — Han^ng wall, in mini-ng, 
that wall of the vein or lode which is over the miner's 
head while he is working, the vein being supposed to 
liave a decided underlay. The opposite wall is the foot- 
wall. If the vein is perfectly vertical, there is neither 
hanging wall nor foot-wall, and the two walls are then 
distingnished by reference to the points of the compass. 
Also called hanging side. — Head wall. See head.— 
Hollow wall, a double wall with a vacant space between 
the two faces.— Mask- wall. See mnsJrS.— Median, par- 
tition, perpend wall. See the cjualifying words.— Plinth 
ofawall. See j)(i/i(/i.— Retainingwall. See retaining. 
— Straight ends and walls. See straight i . — The wall, 
the right or privilege of passing next the wall when en- 
countering another person or persons in the street : a 
right valued in old-fashioned streets with narrow side- 
walks or no footpath, as giving a safer or more cleanly 
passage : used also in the phrase to give or fake the wall. 
Spa. Signer Cavalero Danglatero, I must haue the wall. 
Eng. I doe protest, hadst thou not enforst it, I had not 
regarded it ; but since you will needs haue the wall, lie 
take the pains to thrust you into the kennel. 
Heywood, If you Know not me, i. 
To drive to the wall. See drive. — To go to the wall, 
to be pushed to one side ; succumb to rivals or to the pres- 
sure of circumstances.— To hang by the wall, to hang 
up neglected ; hence, to remain unused. 
All the enrolled penalties 
Which have, like unscour'd arminir, hung bi/ the wall. 
Shak., M. for M., i. 2. 171. 
To push or thrust to the wall, to force to give place ; 
crush by superior i)ower. 
Women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the 
wall. Shak., R. and J., i. 1. 20. 
To take the wall of. See the wall (al)ove) and take.— 
Trapezoidal wall, a retaining wall, upright where it 
conies against tlie bank, but witli a sloping face. — 'Vitri- 
fled wall See vitrijied. —Wall-barley. Same as s^Mi r- 
re(rai/.— Wall-teeth. Same as molar teeth (which see, 
MnAer tooth). (See also /yarfy-H'rti^, training-wall.) 
walll ( wal), V. t. [< ME. walle, wallen, wall, sur- 
round with walls.] 1. To inclose with a wall 
or as with a wall ; furnish with walls : as, to wall 
a city. 
Certes the Kyng of Thebes. Amphionn, 
That with his syngyiig watted that citee. 
Chaucer, Manciple's Tale, 1. 13. 
Tliis flesh which walls about our life. 
.S'/iaA-., Rich. II., iii. 2. 1C7. 
2. To defend by walls; fortify. 
The teiTorof his name that walls lis in 
From danger. Denham. 
3. To obstruct or liiiider as by a wall. 
On either band thee there are squadrons pitch'd, 
To %vall thee from the liberty of flight. 
.%(!*., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 2. 24. 
4. To fill up with a wall. 
The ascent [to the mosque of Sultan Hassan] was by sev- 
eral steps, which are broken down, and the door wall'd up. 
Pocucke, Description of the East, I. 31. 
5. In Enij. unirer.ntij slaiif/, same as gate. 
To gate or icall a refractory student. 
.Macmillan's Mag., II. 222, 
6810 
To wall a rope, to make a wall-knot on the end of a 
rope. 
walP (wal), f. i. [< ME. wallen, < AS. weallan 
(pret. weol, pp. wealleu), boil, well,= OS. wallan 
= OFries. walla = D. loallen = OHG. wallan = 
MHG. G. -wallen = Icel. rella (pret. val) = Goth. 
*wallan (not recorded), boil, well. Hence ult. 
well^ (a secondary form of wall^), walU-, n., tcell^, 
n., wallop^, etc.] 1. To boil. Ray. — 2. To 
well, as water; spring. Alliterative Poems (&. 
E. T. S.), i. 365. 
wall'-^ (wal), n. [< ME. walle, < AS. *iceall (= 
OFries. walla), a well, < weallan, boil, well : see 
walfl, v., and ct. ii'elU, «.] A spring of water. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
Amyd the toure a walle dede sprynge, 
That never is drye but ernynge. 
Religious Poeim, XV. Cent. (Halliwell.) 
wallet (wal), H. [Also wuiile ; also erroneou.sly 
whall, wlial, whale, whaul (chiefly in oomp.); < 
Icel. ragl = Sw. vagel, a wall in the eye, a sty on 
the eye; prob. a particular use of Icel. vagi, a 
beam, = Sw. vagel = Norw. vagi, a roost, perch. 
Hence, in eomp., walleye.'] A disease of the 
eyes : same as walleye. 
Oeil de clievre, a whall, or ouer-white eye; an eye full 
of white spots, or whose apple seems diuided by a streake 
of white. Cotgrave, 1611. 
walla, wallah (wol'a), ». [Anglo-Ind.] A 
doer ; a worker ; a dealer ; an agent ; a keeper ; 
a master; an owner; hence, an inhabitant; a 
man; a fellow: as, a punka-waWa; a Hooghly 
walla. It is sometimes applied to things. 
An inferior type of vessel, both as regards coal-stow- 
age, speed, endurance, and seaworthiness, has been built. 
These "canal wallafis," as they are sometimes called, are 
quite unfitted for the voyage round the Cape, and, should 
the [Suez] canal be blocked by war or accident, they 
would be practically useless in carrying on our Eastern 
trade. Science, XII. 11)7. 
Chicken- walla. See chicken^. — Competition walla, a 
member of the civil service who has received his appoint- 
ment under the competitive system introduced in 1856, 
as opposed to one appointed under the older system of 
influence and interest ; a colloquial and hybrid term. 
wallaba (wol'a-ba), ». [Guiana name (?).] See 
Eiieriia. 
wallaby (wol'a-bi), n. [Also wallabee, whalla- 
hec ; from an Australian name.] A general na- 
tive name of the smaller kangaroos of Austra- 
lia, especially those of the genera Halmaturus 
and I'etrogale ; a rock-kangaroo. 
"What does your lordship suppose a wallaby to be?" 
"Why, a half-caste, of course." "A wallabit, my lord, is 
a dwarf kangaroo." Contemporary Rev., LIII. 3. 
On the wallaby, on the wallaby track, out of work ; 
in search of a joli : the wallaby being proverbially shy and 
elusive. [Slang, Australia.] — Wallaby acacia or wattle, 
an Australian shrub. Acacia rigen.^, having in place of 
leaves linear phyllodia 2 or 3 inches long. — Wallaby- 
bush, an Austr.ilian evergreen shrub, Beyeria viscosa, of 
the Euphorbiacex ; also, other species of the genus. — 
Wallaby-grass, Danthonia penicillata of Australia. 
Wallace's line. See line^. 
Wallach, Wallack (wol'ak), n. [< G. Ifallach, 
from a Slav, term represented by Pol. Wloch, 
an Italian, Woloch, a Wallach, Serv. Vlah. a 
Wallach, = Bohem. Vl^ch, an Italian, = OBulg. 
Vlahii, a Wallach, also a shepherd; ult. < OH(j. 
umlh (= AS. wcalh), a foreigner, a Teut. term 
applied on one side to the Slavic neighbors of 
the Germans, and on the other to the Celtic 
neighbors of the Saxons: see further tinder 
WeUh.'] 1. A member of a race in southeastern 
Europe: see liumaiiian. — 2. The language of 
the Wallachs ; Rumanian. 
Also Walach. 
Wallachian (wo-la'ki-an), a. and n. [< Wal- 
laehia (< Wallaeh) + -«'«.] I. a. Pertaining to 
Wallachia, formerly one of the Danubian prin- 
cipalities, and now a part of the kingdom of 
Rumania ; of or pertaining to the Wallachs. — 
Wallachian rye. See ryeA, i.— Wallachian sheep, a 
variety of the domestic sheep, Oris aries, having mon- 
strously long twisted horns, found in parts of western 
Asia and eastern and southern Europe, whence also called 
Cretan sheep. 
II. n. Same as Wallach. Also called So- 
ma nese. 
Also Walachian, Vlach. 
Wallack, ». See Wallach. 
wall-arcade (wal'ar-kad'''), ". An arcade used 
as an ornamental dressing to a wall. See cut 
in next column. 
wallaroo (wol-a-ro'), n. [Australian.] A na- 
tive name of some of the great kangaroos, as 
Maerojius rohnstus. /'. /-. Sclater. 
wall-bearing (wal'bar"ing), H. In marh., a 
bearing which receives a shaft as it enters or 
passes through a wall, it has a casing of cast-iron 
built into the wall to protect the bearing and support the 
masonry above it, while the bottom forms a bedplate for 
the plumber-block. Also culled wall-box. E. U. Knight. 
waller 
Wall-arcade, end of the lath century, St. Julien de Brioude, IJc- 
partiiient of Haute-Loire '.Auvergne), France. (From Viotlet-le-Duc's 
" Diet, de I'Architecture.") 
wall-bird (wal'b^rd), n. The beam-bird, or 
spotted flycatcher, Mtiscicaj>a grisola. Also 
wall-plat. [Local, British.] 
wall-b03C (wal'boks), H. 1. Same a,s wall-bear- 
ing. — 2. A box set into a wall for the recep- 
tion of letters for the post. Encyc. Diet. 
wall-clamp (wal'klamp), Ji. A brace or tie to 
hold together two walls, or the two parts of a 
double wall. E. H. Knight. 
wall-clock (wal'klok), n. A clock made to be 
Inmg upon the wall. 
wall-crane (wal'kran), n. A crane fixed upon 
a wall or column so as to command a sweep 
over a given area, the nearer points being 
reached by an overhead traveler: used in 
foundries, forges, etc. E. H. Knight. 
wall-creeper (warkre'^per), «. Any bird of 
the family Certhiidse and subfamily Tiehodro- 
minx, of which there are several species. The 
best-known is Tichodroma muraria of Europe, 
also called spider -catcher. See cut under Ti- 
chodroma. 
wall-cress (wal'kres), n. A plant of the genus 
.irabis, particularly those outside of the section 
T«r/'(fts, the tower-mustard; i-ock-cress. A white- 
flowered species, A. alhida, a dwarf hardy plant, has been 
much cultivated ; also the allied A. alpina, and with little 
merit A. procurrens. A. blepharophylla of California is 
desirable for its rose-purple flowers. The species when 
ornamental are suited to rock-work, but many are of a 
weedy character. 
wall-desk (wal'desk), n. A form of folding 
desk attached to a wall at a convenient height 
above the floor. 
wall-drill (wal'dril), n. See driin. 
walledi (wald), p. a. [< ME. walled; < wall^ + 
-c(J2.] 1. Provided with a wall or walls; in- 
closed or fortified with a wall ; fortified. 
We are bigger in batell, haue a burghe stronge, 
Wele wallit for the werre, watris aboute. 
Destrtiction <if Troy(E. E. T. S.), 1. 2121. 
The approach to Trail is a speaking commentary on the 
state of things in days when no one but the lord of a private 
fortress could be safe anywhere within a wailed town. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 177. 
2. In her. : (o) Accompanied by the appear- 
ance of stone masonry. Thus, a pale mUled is 
flanked on each side with the representation of quoins, as 
if at the corner of a building. The blazon should state 
how many of these quoins there are on each side, (ft) 
Covered with lines representing or indicating 
stone masonry : noting the field or an ordinary. 
— Walled plain. Same as ring-plain. 
walled^ (wald), a. [< wall^ -f- -ed^.] Having a 
defect in color or fonn : said of the eye. [Col- 
loq. or provincial.] 
A man with a red goatee, . . . rather undersized, and 
with one eye a little walled. 
E. Eggleston, The Ceutnry, XXXV. 845. 
wall-engine (waren^'jin), m. An engine fas- 
tened to a wall. It is generally a vertical engine, and 
is used for driving shafting or furnishing a supply of feed- 
water to a boiler. E. //. Knight. 
waller! (wa'ler), II. [< late ME.walUire; < icall^ 
-I- -prl.] One who builds walls. 
waller^ (wa'ler), H. [< icalP + -erl.] One who 
boils salt, takes it out of the leads, etc. 
