Index of English words, starting with "wa"

(1) - Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
(2) - Wale (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
(3) - Wale (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
(4) - Wale (n.) 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.
(5) - Wale (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
(6) - Wale (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
(7) - Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

(1) - Walk (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
(2) - Walk (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
(3) - Walk (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.
(4) - Walk (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
(5) - Walk (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
(6) - Walk (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
(7) - Walk (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.
(8) - Walk (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
(9) - Walk (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
(10) - Walk (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
(11) - Walk (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
(12) - Walk (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
(13) - Walk (n.) 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.
(14) - Walk (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
(15) - Walk (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
(16) - Walk (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.