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Show WA gy Wa'kEN . p e 1, ' ToWhenroufhee wafrs omwvakf en'd wit 1o. T'o move off; to depart When he comes forth, he will make thelt cow noife th and gayrans to alk, if he doth no other harm t tthr perfons And faw the beaft {o fmall What's this, quoth he, that gives fo weak a voice Spenfer That wwakens men withal 1T We make no longer ftay 3 go, waken Eve. Milt 4, o excite to aftion As in his prefence 12 Then Homer's and Tyrtaeus" martial muf Wakewd the world, and founded loud alarms Rofcommon 3. To produce5 to excite They introduc . Their facred fong, and wwaken raptures hi_sh . WA'KEROBIN 4 +plant 7. / "Ware. # / [arum [pel, Saxon Milt a web. ToWaLK. v. a. [walen, German ; pealcan Saxon, to roll. ' 1, To move by leifurely fteps, {o that on foot is fet down before the other is take up « "A man was feen alkin befor th compofedly door ver Clarendon The felf-fame fu At once doth flow and {wiftly run Thus with a double courfe, in the fame fphere Cowley He runs the day and zva/ks the year languag Sir, walk in. Shakefp =1 had rather walk here, 1 thank you " 3, To move for exercife or amufement What mea you, Cafar thin yo forth to wal Shake[peare Thefe bow'rs as wide as we need wwalk Milton FEEE 4, To move the floweft pace ; not to trot gallop, oramble ~ Applied to a horfe , 1 0eai §o T appear as a fpettre e Jih if fuch things be, thy mothe Appear'd to me laft night Shakefp. Winter's Tale It then draws near the feafo « Wherein the fpirit is wont to walk. Shak. Hamlet There were wwalking {pirits of the houie of York ~aswell in Ireland as in England. Dawies's Ireland Some fay no evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorifh fen Blue meagre hag, or frubborn unlaid ghof That breaks his magick chains at curfew time No goblin, or fwart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity Milton In vain the cock has fummon'd fprights away She avaks at noon, and blafts the bloom of da Young # 6. To a& on any occafion ere madam Sempronia fhould take place of me And Fulvia} come 1' th' rear Ben Fonfon 7: To be in motion. Applied to a cla;, Morous or abufive female tongue ; an 5 ftill in low language retained As fhe went, her tongue did wwal In foul.reproach, and terms of vile defpight 9 fovoking him by her outrageous talk. ~ Spenfer « Toad in fleep When was it fhe laft walk'd # K = have feen her rife fro her bed unloc Aer clofet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon't :;a}l*,)t, and return to bed; yet all this while in ,;_‘ faft fleep . Shakefpeare's Macbeth f0range5 to be ftirring Afi'a_ir.s that walk o ¢y fay fpirits do at midnight, hav Thate{a]: v:;}lder nature than the bufinef oL meadow Warx. z /. [from the verb. 1. Attof walking for air or exercife s difpatch by day II Shakefps Henry VIII foot, and fets it down again juft fhor of his near fore foot, and juft as he i fetting it down, he lifts his near fore foo and fets it down juft before his far for Farrier's Diéf foot One tha Wa'LkER. 7. /0 [from awalt. walks 1 ride and walk, and am reputed the beft awalke Sawift to Gay in this town May no fuch vicious walkers crowd the ftreet Gay Wa'LKINGSTAFF. 7./. A fick which a man holds to fuppert him in walking The club which a man of an ordinary fize cou f Hercules, Gla not lift, was but a walking-ffaffo WALL. n /. [wal, Welth5 wallum, L pall, Saxon ; walle, Dutch.] 1. A feries of brick or ftone, or other materials, carried upwards, and cemente with mortar ; the fide ofa building Not walk by moonlight, without thee, is fveet Milton Her keeper by her fide To watch her zpalks, his hundred eyes applied. Dryd Philander ufed to take a awalk in a neighbourin wood Addifon ftep ; manner of moving The fhape of man, and imitated beft Poor Tom ! that eats the wa//-pewt and the waShakefpeare's King Lear ter-newt Where though I mourn my matchlefs lofs alone And none between my weaknefs judge and me Yet ev'n thefe gentle wwalls allow my moan Whofe doleful echoes with my plaintsagree. #ution Part rife in cryftal evall or ridge dire@. Milion 2. Fortification ; works built for defence In this fenfe 1t i1s commonly ufed plurally love's light wings did I o'erperch thef Wit The ewalk, the words, the gefture could fupply The habit mimick, and the mien belie Dryden For ftony limits cannot hold out love. Shakefpeare which one walks General, the wwalfs are thine Witnefs the world, that I create thee her 3. A length of fpace, or circuit, throug He ufually from hence to th* palace gat Makes it his cwalk Shakefpeare's Macbezh She would never mifs one da A awalk fo fine, a fight o gay Prior 4. An avenue fet with trees He hath left you all his walks His private arbours, and new-planted orchards On that fide the Tiber Shakefp. Fulius Cefar Goodlieft trees planted with evalks and bow'rs Milton 5. Way ; road ; range ; place of wanderin ‘I'he mountains are his walks, who wand'ring feed On flowly-fpringing herbs Sandys's Paraphrafe If that way be your walk, you have not far. Milt Set women in his eye, and in his walk Among dauzhters of men the faireft found Az Ou fouls, for want of that acquaintance here Dryden May wanderin the ftarry walks above bright companion of the fun Tha Whofe glorious afpet feal'd our new-born king And now a round of greater years begun New influence from his zvalks of light did bring Dryden 6. Region; fpace Wantin Do you think I°d walk in any plot TQ lead out, for the fake of air or exercile : as, he awalked his horfe in th The fpirits of the dea May walk again I do not without danger qvalk thefe ftreets. Shdk No rich or noble knav Shall evalk the world in credit to his grave. Pope Morpheus, of all his numerous train, exprefs' Within one yearly circle's fpace 1. To pafs through 2. Gait rounds enclof 2, It is ufed in the ceremoniou . of invitation, for come or go T t a e ,{;l? ; 1 long to renew our old intercourfe, our mornIng conferences, and our evening evalks Pope Swiftly his daily journey he goes But treads his annual with a ftatelier pace And does three hundre Milton Loxd }‘.Jdll blefled thee; h knoweth th lki thro ugh this wildernefs T wa o g Deut. Slii. 7 Latin. Miller "rifing part in the furface of cloth To act in any particular manner Spernfer Do juttly, love mercy, and walk humbly wit thy God Micab L'l love with fear the only God, and wal A man that is qakened out of fleep. Zech. iv. 1 WA WAR an ampler fphere to expatiate in, h opened a boundlefs zalk for his imagination Pope They are to be cautioufly ftudied by thofe wh are ambitious of treading the great zalk of hiftory Reynolds 7. [turbo, Latin. A fith Ainfworth 8. Walk is the floweft or leaft raifed pace avalls Shakefpeare's King Leay My lord and mafter A pre To that proud city, whofe high wa//s thou faw'f Left in confufion Miltor's Paradife Lo# I ruth undaunted to defend the walls Drydes 3. To take the wall. 'To take the uppe place ; not to give place I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's Shakefpeare's Romeo and Fulict When once the poet's honour ceafes From reafon far his tranfports rove And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces Makes Louis take the wall of Jove To WaLL v. a Prior. [from the noun. 1. To inclofe with walls There bought a piece of ground, which Birf eall' From the bull's hide, they firft inclos'd and wa/l'd Dryden 2. To defend by walls The walled towns do work my greater woe The foreft wide is fitter to refoun Spenfer The hollow echo of my careful cries His council advifed him to make himfelf mafte Bacon's Henry V1L of fome good walled town The Spaniards caft themfelves continually int roundels, their ftronge& fhips walling in the reft Bacon's War wwith Spain The terror of his name, that wa/s us i Denbam's'Sophy From danger WALLCREE'PER. 2. /. [picusmartius, Lat. Ainfworth A bird or going, ofa horfe. In a qual/e,.a horf lifts two legs of a fide, one after th other, beginning with the hind leg firft Wa'LLET. 2. /. [peallian, to travel, Sax. 1. A bag in which the neceflaries of then he 1_1&5 his fa Having entered into a long gallery, he laid dow as fuppofe that he leads with the leg o his right fide hind foot firft ; and in the time that h is fetting it down, which in a ftep is always fhort of the tread of his fore foo upon the fame fide, he lifts his far for nea hi befor dow i fet an foot foot, and juft as he lifts up his near hin traveller are put ; a knapfack - his wallet, and fpread his carpet,in order to fei‘f) Addifon himfelf upon it 2. Any thing protuberant and fwagging Who would believe, that there were mountainee Dewlapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging the Walluts of flefh 3 Shakelpeare WeaLL |