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who acts in any particular manner.—There is another sort of 
disorderly walkers who still keep amongst us. Bp. Comp¬ 
ton. —A fuller; a walk mill; a fulling-mill. \Walcher, 
Dutch, fullo; walcken, Teut. pannum polire, probably 
from the Lat. calcare. Skinner.] 
She curst the weaver, and the walker. 
That clothe that had wrought. Old Ballad. 
WALKER, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Long 
Benton, Northumberland. 
WALKER, a township of the United States, in Centre 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 553. 
WALKER’S COVE, a harbour on the west coast of North 
America, in Behm’s canal. It extends about two leagues 
into the land, and terminates in some marshy ground. Lat. 
55. 42. N. long. 229. 20. E. 
WALKER’S KEY, one of the small Bahama islands. 
Lat. 26. 50. N. long. 78. 54. W. 
WALKER, Point, a cape on the south coast of King's 
island in the North Pacific ocean, at the entrance into Bank’s 
canal. Lat. 51. 57. N. long. 232. 9. E. 
WALKERFIELD, or Wacherfield, a hamlet of Eng¬ 
land, county of Durham. 
WALKERIA [so named from the Rev. Richard Wal¬ 
ker, D.D. Vice-master of Trinity College, and founder of the 
Botanic Garden at Cambridge], in Botany, a genus of the 
class pentandria, order monogynia, natural order uncertain. 
—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-parted inferior : 
segments lanceolate, acute, spreading, permanent. Corolla: 
petals five, lanceolate, acute, spreading, a little longer than 
the calyx. Stamina: filaments five, capillary, ascending, 
shorter by half than the petals. Anthers roundish. Pistil: 
germ globular, five-cleft. Style setaceous, erect, height of 
the stamens. Stigma simple. Pericarp: drupes five, 
obovate-reniform, one-celled. Seeds solitary, reniform, 
inclosed in a kind of bony shell.— Essential Character. 
Calyx five-parted, inferior. Corolla five-petal led. Drupes 
five, one-seeded. Nuts reniform. 
1. Walkeria serrata.—This is a small tree, about twelve 
feet high. Leaves alternate petioled, oblong acuminate, 
serrate ribbed. Corymbs terminating. Flowers small, 
yellow, inodorous. Fruit berried drupes, distant, erect, red, 
finally brown and somewhat wrinkled : pulp thin, drying 
up with age into a leathery crust: shell of the same form 
with the drupe, somewhat bony, one-celled, valveless. 
Common receptacle small, conical, obtuse, fungous, emar- 
ginate at the edge for the insertion of the drupes. Proper 
receptacle, a very short thread from the base of the shell and 
inserted into the middle of the seed within side. Seed softish 
to the touch.—Native of the East Indies. 
WALKERINGHAM, a parish of England, county of 
Nottingham. Population 453. 
WALKER1TH, a hamlet of England, in Lincolnshire; 1 
mile south of Gainsborough. 
WALKERNE, a parish of England, in Yorkshire; 4 miles 
east-by-north of Stevenage. 
WALKERSVILLE, a post village of the United States, in 
Centre county, Pennsylvania.—2. A post village of Lincoln 
county, Georgia. 
WALKERTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
in King and Queen county, Virginia ; 45 miles north-east of 
Richmond. 
WALK HAMPTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
5 miles south-east-by-east of Tavistock. 
WA'LKINGSTAFF, s. A stick which a man holds to 
support him in walking.—The club which a man of an 
ordinary size could not lift, was but a walking-staff' for 
Hercules. Glanvi/le. 
WALKINGTON, a parish of England, in Yorkshire, near 
Beverley. Population 450. 
WALKINSTEAD, a parish of England, in Surrey, half a- 
mile east-south-east of Godstone. 
WALL, s. [ wal , Welsh; vallum , Lat.; pall, Saxon; 
walle, Dutch.] A series of brick or stone, or other niate- 
rials carried upwards, and cemented with mortar; the side of 
a building.—Poor Tom! that eats the wall- newt and the 
water-newt. Shakspeare. —Fortification; works built for 
defence. In this sense it is commonly used plurally. 
With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls 
For stony limits cannot hold out love. Shakspeare. 
To take the WALL. To take the side next the wall ; 
not to give place.—I will take the wall of any man or 
maid of Montague’s. Shakspeare. 
To WALL, v. a. To inclose with walls; to surround as 
with a wall. 
As if this flesh, that walls about our life. 
Were brass impregnable. Shakspeare . 
To defend by walls. 
The walled towns do work my greater woe: 
The forest wide is fitter to resound 
The hollow echo of my careful cries. Spenser. 
To fill up with a wall.— Walling up that part of the 
church where the tomb of the saint was placed. Lord 
Lyttelton. 
WALL, a township of England, in Northumberland; 3 
miles north of Hexham.—-2. A hamlet in the county of Staf¬ 
ford, south of Lichfield. 
WALLACE, a small island of the United States, near the 
coast of South Carolina. Lat. 33. 54. N. long. 78.35. W. 
WALLACETOWN, a thriving and populous village of 
Scotland, in Ayrshire, in the parish of St. Quivox. The vil¬ 
lage nearly joins Newton-upon-Ayr, and contains about 
1500 inhabitants. 
WALLASEY ISLE, in England, situated in the river 
Crouch, Essex, opposite Fullness Isle. It is about 5 miles 
long and one broad, and is secured from the sea by a mound 
of earth. 
WALLAXHALL, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Hales Owen, county of Salop. 
WALLAZEY, a township of England, in the county of 
Chester. 
WALL-BOTTLE, a township of England, in Northum¬ 
berland ; 4 miles west-by-north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
WA’LLCREEPER, s. [picus martius, Lat.] A bird. 
Ainsworth. 
WALLDORF, a village of Germany, in the duchy of 
Saxe-Meiningen. Population 1100. 
WALLDURN, a town of Germany, in Baden; 10 miles 
south-by-west of Wertheim, with 2500 inhabitants. 
WALLENDORF, Olaszi, or Wlahi, a town of Hun¬ 
gary, on the river Hernuth; 20 miles west-by-south of 
Eperies. Population 2800. 
WALLENIA [so named by Swartz, in honour of Mat¬ 
thew Wallen, Esq., a native of Ireland], in Botany, a genus 
of the class tetrandria, order monogynia.—Generic Character. 
Calyx: perianth one-leafed, four-cleft, permanent: seg¬ 
ments erect, obtuse. Corolla: one-petalled, tubular: tube 
cylindrical, erect, longer than the calyx: border four-cleft; 
segments ovate, obtuse, erect, converging, small. Stamina : 
filaments four, from the bottom of the corolla, wider at the 
base, erect, longer by half than the corolla, (above the 
border) diverging. Anthers ovate, erect. Pistil: germ 
oblong, superior. Style awl-shaped, shorter than the 
stamens and corolla, permanent. Stigma simple, obtuse. 
Pericarp : berry roundish, one-celled. Seed one, roundish, 
covered with a brittle crust.— Essential Character. Calyx 
four-cleft, inferior. Corolla tubular, four-cleft. Berry one- 
seeded. 
1. Wallenia laurifolia.—This is a tree with a trunk from 
ten to twenty feet high, covered with an even unarmed bark. 
Branches long; branchlets round, warted by the fallen 
leaves. Leaves petioled, oblong acuminate, with a blunt 
point, somewhat striated, smooth and shining. Petioles 
short, round, smooth. Stipules none. Panicle terminating, 
spreading: branches alternate; flowers pedicelled, yellow, 
inodorous. Calyx embracing the corolla, permanent, pale 
coloured. Berry scarlet.—'Native of Jamaica and His¬ 
paniola. 
WALLENSTADT, 
