Walk \Walk\ (w[add]k), 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. v[=a]lka 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. [root]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.
Note: 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.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. --Shak.
When was it she last walked? --Shak.
4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] ``Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.'' --Spenser.
Do you think I'd walk in any plot? --B. Jonson.
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. --Latimer.
5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. --Jer. Taylor.
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 \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; to walk the dog. `` I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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.]
4. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. --C. E. Craddock.
{To walk one's chalks}, to make off; take French leave.
{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 \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.
6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.
7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]
8. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Arm \Arm\, n. [AS. arm, earm; akin to OHG. aram, G., D., Dan., & Sw. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms, L. armus arm, shoulder, and prob. to Gr. ? joining, joint, shoulder, fr. the root ? to join, to fit together; cf. Slav. rame. ?. See {Art}, {Article}.] 1. The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
2. Anything resembling an arm; as, (a) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear. (b) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. (c) A branch of a tree. (d) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard. (e) (Naut) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke. (f) An inlet of water from the sea. (g) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.
3. Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.
To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? --Isa. lii. 1.
{Arm's end}, the end of the arm; a good distance off. --Dryden.
{Arm's length}, the length of the arm.
{Arm's reach}, reach of the arm; the distance the arm can reach.
{To go} (or {walk}) {arm in arm}, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. ``When arm in armwe went along.'' --Tennyson.
{To keep at arm's length}, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse.
{To work at arm's length}, to work disadvantageously.
"When you have to walk so far, you can't go into a place like that," Wilson said of the courthouse.
Earlier, in the morning, Genoese said workers were being told to walk out.
That's where the exchange could be useful.' But this is all heady stuff, and the BSE has to learn to walk before trying to run.
But Connally said he believed they would also walk off the job in sympathy.
He runs the Stress Management Unit at London Bridge Hospital, a short walk from the Pavilion wine bar.
And just watch how fast people move if they walk into a silky spider web in the dark.
Lorimar retains the right to walk away if the merger doesn't bring its stockholders at least $15 per share, which means Warner's stock price must average $36 per share.
The two dancers told their host family they were going for a walk Friday morning, then were seen by a neighbor getting into a car driven by a man believed to be the husband of one of the women, said Folkfest President Brent Haymond.
The walk was the highlight of celebrations marking the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
But the RJR Nabisco Inc. unit continues to walk a narrow line between publishing its research and promoting its product as a safer cigarette.
Just a 20-minute walk east from the spires of London's high finance and the dome of St. Paul's, signs of England melt away into the sounds and smells of the Asian subcontinent.
"After he plays badly, I notice that I don't walk as close to him on the street, and I have to force myself to give him a hug."
As an action hero he's pretty goofy, but he does walk through broken glass barefoot, which should attract the Rambo fans.
Police asked them to walk to the vans, and when they refused, they were dragged about 200 feet to the vehicles and taken to jail.
But what happens next depends to a large degree on the ability of the athlete to translate commitment and drive into new fields, yet retain the humility of a beginner. Many believe they can walk on water - and promptly sink.
Repeated one-day walkouts by subway workers and bus drivers have forced millions of Londoners to walk to work.
For the moment, she suggests a walk.
Those wishing to place "To Go" orders at Luby's can either call in and then walk through a separate entrance to the cafeteria to pick up their order.
"The problem here is if you don't accept checks, people will walk away," said Judy Cook, president of the Minnesota Retail Merchants Association.
In the meantime, she told us how to find the Jewish graveyard and the residence of the parish priest. A soft August rain was falling but we decided to walk to the cemetery rather than drive.
"To walk into a ward and see a baby that doesn't have the possibility of living past a certain age, it hurts," she said.
Students at four schools in Seoul painted huge Stars and Stripes on campus roadways so pedestrians and vehicles could walk or drive on them.
Attorneys representing Texaco and its creditors' and shareholders' committees stand to walk away with some $21 million in legal fees and expenses for about 13 months of work.
They have now left the challengers standing. Admittedly, the setting is special, the central meadow of the walk where Joseph Addison reflected on landscape gardening in the early 18th century and began to rebel against the formal style.
But I feel that I should be able to walk into the church and sit anywhere I choose to be seated," Singleton said.
I'd see the faces every time I'd walk by, going to work, coming home.
The AIDS virus frequently robs young victims of their ability to talk and walk and lowers their intelligence.
Up to 12,800 workers are expected to walk off the job at nine plants and two offices in Ontario.
Nevertheless, demand for the exercise test remains strong. Many patients walk into their doctor's office and demand one. Some health clubs require them of members.
Beginning this past Monday, the agency's inspectors are to "walk through" the high-hazard areas of each plant after reviewing their safety logs.