6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.]

He will make their cows and garrans to walk.

Spenser.

To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. — To walk after the

flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Rom.

viii. 1. — To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the

counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom.

viii. 1. — To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of

the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2

Cor. v. 7. — To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance,

error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. — To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live

this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2

Cor. x. 3. — To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of

religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John i. 7. — To walk over,

in racing, to go over a course at a walk; — said of a horse when there

is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any

contest. — To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with

severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. — To walk with God (Script.), to

live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.

Walk, v. t. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to

perambulate; as, to walk the streets.

As we walk our earthly round.

Keble.

2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to

walk one's horses. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my

ambling gelding." Shak.

3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To subject, as

cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.]

To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned;

— an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a

plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would

drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by

compulsion. Bartlett.

Walk, n. 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace;

advance without running or leaping.

2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk;

an evening walk.

3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a

distance by his walk.

4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a

place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or

for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in

which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.

A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and

bowers.

Milton.

He had walk for a hundred sheep.

Latimer.

Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain.

Bryant.

5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk

of the historian.

The mountains are his walks.

Sandys.

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.

Pope.

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