Wald (?), n. [AS. weald. See Wold.] A forest; — used as a termination
of names. See Weald.
Wal*den"ses (?; 277), n. pl. [So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter
Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.]
(Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of
the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by
persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They
profess substantially Protestant principles.
Wal*den"sian (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. — n. One
Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
Wald"grave (?), n. [See Wald, and Margrave.] In the old German empire,
the head forest keeper.
||Wald*hei"mi*a (?), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of brachiopods of which
||many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the
||deep sea.
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Wale (?), n. [AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally,
a rod; akin to Icel. völr, Goth. walus a rod, staff. √146. Cf. Goal,
Weal a wale.]
1. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a
wheal. See Wheal. Holland.
2. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the
texture of cloth.
Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride.
Beau & Fl.
3. (Carp.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together
and in position. Knight.
4. (Naut.) (a) pl. Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a
vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port
sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck,
etc. (b) A wale knot, or wall knot.
Wale knot. (Naut.) See Wall knot, under 1st Wall.
Wale, v. t. 1. To mark with wales, or stripes.
2. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse
of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wal*hal"la (?), n. [Cf. G. walhalla, See Valhalla.] See Valhalla.
Wal"ing (?), n. (Naut.) Same as Wale, n., 4.
Walk (wk), 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. vlka 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.]
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.
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of
Babylon.
Dan. iv. 29.
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go
to Jesus.
Matt. xiv. 29.
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.
2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's
exercise; to ramble.
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.