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.
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.
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.]
2. (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.
2. 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.
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.