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Wallaba: Definition and part of speech

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Wallaba

  1. n. A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Walk: Definition and part of speech

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Walk

  1. n. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman’s walk.
  2. v. i. 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.
  3. v. i. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one’s exercise; to ramble.
  4. v. i. 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.
  5. v. i. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
  6. v. i. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one’s self.
  7. v. i. To move off; to depart.
  8. v. t. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
  9. v. t. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one’s horses.
  10. v. t. To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
  11. 1n. 1 The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman’s walk.
  12. 1v. i. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Walker: Definition and part of speech

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Walker

  1. v. t. Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
  2. n. One who walks; a pedestrian.
  3. n. That with which one walks; a foot.
  4. n. A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
  5. v. t. A fuller of cloth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Walk-over: Definition and part of speech

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Walk-over

  1. n. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.