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<A NAME="wallonian">
<B>Wallonian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the dialect of the Walloons; Walloon. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=Walloon.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="walloon">
<B>Walloon, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any one of a group of people inhabiting chiefly the southern and southeastern parts of Belgium and adjacent regions in France. <DD><B> 2. </B>their language, the French dialect of Belgium. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Walloons or their language. </DL>
<A NAME="wallop">
<B>wallop</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> (Informal.) <B>1. </B>to beat soundly; thrash. (SYN) flog. <DD><B> 2. </B>to hit very hard; strike with a vigorous blow. <DD><B> 3. </B>to defeat thoroughly, as in a game. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal and Dialect.) to move clumsily or noisily; flounder; plunge. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Especially Scottish.) to dangle, flap, or wobble. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to gallop. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) a very hard blow. <BR> <I>Ex. The wallop knocked him down.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) the power to hit very hard blows. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal and Dialect.) a heavy, clumsy, noisy movement of the body; floundering; lurching. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative, Informal.) strong force; power; impact. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the wallop of vivid contemporary prints (New York Times). There is plenty of wallop in this album (Bosley Crowther).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(British Slang.) beer. <BR> <I>Ex. a drink of wallop.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) a gallop. <BR><I>expr. <B>go</B> (<B>down</B>) <B>wallop,</B> </I>(Informal and Dialect.) to fall noisily. <BR> <I>Ex. The horse tripped and the rider went down wallop.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>pack a wallop,</B> </I>(Informal.) to carry great force or power; have a strong impact. <BR> <I>Ex. Here's painstaking scholarship that packs a wallop (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wallop">
<B>wallop</B> (2), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to boil violently and with a noisy bubbling. <DD><I>noun </I> (Obsolete.) the noisy bubbling of rapidly boiling water. </DL>
<A NAME="walloper">
<B>walloper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) anything strikingly large or big; whopper. </DL>
<B>wall oven,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an oven built into a wall or cabinet in a kitchen, bakery, or laboratory. <BR> <I>Ex. Kitchen equipment includes a ... built-in wall oven, dishwasher and a range (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wallow">
<B>wallow, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to roll about; flounder. <BR> <I>Ex. The pigs wallowed in the mud. The boat wallowed helplessly in the stormy sea.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to live contentedly in filth, wickedness, or other dissolute way of life, like a beast. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to live or delight self-indulgently or luxuriously in some form of pleasure, manner of life, attitude, or emotion. <BR> <I>Ex. to wallow in wealth, wallow in sentimentality.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to billow up or surge out; gush (from). <BR> <I>Ex. dense black smoke wallowing from the chimneys.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the act of wallowing. <BR> <I>Ex. a wallow in the mud.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the condition of wallowing. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) to sink into a hopeless wallow of despair.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a muddy or dusty place where an animal wallows. <BR> <I>Ex. a hog wallow. There used to be many buffalo wallows on the prairies.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a depression or hollow in such a place, caused by wallowing. noun <B>wallower.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="wallpainting">
<B>wallpainting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the painting of the surface of a wall, or similar surfaces, with ornamental designs and figures, as seen in fresco and tempera. <DD><B> 2. </B>a picture or design so painted. </DL>
<A NAME="wallpaper">
<B>wallpaper, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> paper, usually printed with a decorative pattern in color, for pasting on and covering inside walls. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to put wallpaper on (a wall) or on the walls of (a room, apartment, or house). </DL>
<A NAME="wallpapermusic">
<B>wallpaper music,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> recorded music piped into an office, restaurant, or the like, through a public-address system. <BR> <I>Ex. 'Wallpaper music' ... the plastic, bland pop stuff that churns out as a comfy background you don't really have to notice (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wallpellitory">
<B>wall pellitory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a low, bushy European variety of pellitory that grows upon or at the foot of old walls. </DL>
<A NAME="wallpennywort">
<B>wall pennywort,</B> <B>=navelwort.</B></DL>
<A NAME="wallplate">
<B>wall plate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a timber (plate) placed horizontally in or along a wall, under the ends of girders, joists, or rafters, to distribute pressure. <DD><B> 2. </B>a metal plate fastened to a wall or ceiling as a support or place of attachment for machinery, a bracket, anchor in a building, or heavy load. </DL>
<A NAME="wallrock">
<B>wall rock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mining.) the rock forming the walls of a vein. </DL>
<A NAME="wallrocket">
<B>wall rocket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a yellow-flowered European plant of the mustard family, naturalized in North America. </DL>
<A NAME="wallrue">
<B>wall rue,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small fern, a variety of spleenwort, that grows on walls and cliffs. </DL>
<A NAME="walls">
<B>walls, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>wall.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="wallsided">
<B>wall-sided, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical.) (of a ship or vessel) having sides nearly perpendicular. </DL>
<A NAME="wallstreet">
<B>Wall Street,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a street in downtown New York City that is the chief financial center of the United States. <DD><B> 2. </B>the money market or financiers of the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="wallstreeter">
<B>Wall Streeter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works on Wall Street or in the financial district around it. </DL>
<A NAME="walltent">
<B>wall tent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tent with perpendicular sides, usually rising two or three feet from the ground. </DL>
<A NAME="walltowall">
<B>wall-to-wall, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>covering the entire floor between opposite walls in both directions. <BR> <I>Ex. wall-to-wall carpeting.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Especially U.S., Figurative.) extending from one end or extreme to the other. <BR> <I>Ex. [The car] comes with a wall-to-wall front grille that conceals the headlights (Time). It is not easy to forsee an all-Europe computer manufacturer or a Continental wall-to-wall version of General Electric (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wally">
<B>wally, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>handsome; fine. <DD><B> 2. </B>large; ample. <DD><I>noun </I> a toy or trinket; gewgaw. Also, <B>waly.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>wallies,</B> </I>finery. <BR> <I>Ex. bonny wallies.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wallyball">
<B>wallyball, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) volleyball played in a walled court. <BR> <I>Ex. Wallyball is ... played on a racquetball court (New York Daily News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wallydrag">
<B>wallydrag, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><B> 1a. </B>a weak or runty person or animal. <DD><B> b. </B>the youngest (and often feeblest) of a family, brood, or litter. <DD><B> 2. </B>a worthless, slovenly person, especially a woman. </DL>
<B>walnut, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a rather large, almost round nut with a division between its two halves and a hard, ridged surface. The meat of the walnut is eaten by itself or used in cakes and cookies. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of the trees that it grows on, especially the English or Persian walnut and the black walnut, much grown in north temperate regions for their nuts, their valuable wood, and as shade trees. <DD><B> 3. </B>the wood of any of these trees. Some kinds of walnut are used in making furniture. <DD><B> 4. </B>any one of several trees, or their fruits, that resemble the walnut. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) the shagbark (hickory) or its nut. <DD><B> 6. </B>the brown color of polished black walnut. </DL>
<A NAME="walnutfamily">
<B>walnut family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous, resinous trees and shrubs, found in north temperate regions. The family includes the walnut, hickory, and pecan. </DL>
<A NAME="walpolian">
<B>Walpolian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or like the English author and letter writer Horace Walpole (1717-1797) or his writings. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or like the English statesman and financier Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) or his political views. <DD><I>noun </I> a follower or admirer of Horace Walpole or Sir Robert Walpole. </DL>
<B>Walpurgis Night,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the night of April 30; the feast of Saint Walpurgis, when, according to German legend, witches were supposed to hold revels with the Devil on a peak of the Harz Mountains. </DL>
<A NAME="walrus">
<B>walrus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ruses</B> or (collectively for 1) <B>-rus,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a large sea animal of arctic regions, related to and resembling the seals, but having two long tusks. Walruses are valuable for their ivory tusks and blubber oil. Walrus hide is made into leather for suitcases, bags, etc. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) a very fat, clumsy person or animal. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with a walrus or walruses. <BR> <I>Ex. walrus hide, a walrus hunter.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>like a walrus. <BR> <I>Ex. a walrus face.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="walrusmustache">
<B>walrus mustache,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man's mustache that is very long and curves downward at the ends, so as to resemble the tusks of the male walrus. </DL>
