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1: United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989) [syn: {Robinson}, {Ray Robinson}, {Sugar Ray Robinson}]

1: small portable radio link (receiver and transmitter) [syn: {walky-talky}]

1: close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory" [syn: {walk-to(a)}, {walking(a)}] n : the act of traveling by ...

1: a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed

1: ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip [syn: {walking leaf}, {Asplenium rhizophyllum}, {Camptosorus rhizophyllus}]

1: a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk [syn: {Tennessee walker}, {Tennessee walking horse}, {Plantation walking horse}]

1: ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip [syn: {walking fern}, {Asplenium rhizophyllum}, {Camptosorus rhizophyllus}] 2: tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southe...

1: a state of extreme happiness [syn: {bliss}, {blissfulness}, {cloud nine}, {seventh heaven}]

1: (informal) a notice of dismissal or discharge [syn: {marching orders}]

1: a light comfortable shoe designed for vigorous walking

1: a stick carried in the hand for support in walking 2: any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies [syn: {walkingstick}, {stick insect}]

1: any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies [syn: {walking stick}, {stick insect}]

1: a strike in which the workers walk out 2: the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest; "there was a walkout by the Black members as the chairman rose to speak"

1: backbends combined with handstands 2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: {cinch}, {breeze}, {picnic}, {snap}, {duck soup}, {child's play}, {pushove...

1: a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk" [syn: {walk}, {paseo}]

1: small portable radio link (receiver and transmitter) [syn: {walkie-talkie}]

1: an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls we...

1: European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows [syn: {barley grass}, {Hordeum murinum}]

1: a clock mounted on a wall

1: crimson-and-gray songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa [syn: {tichodrome}, {Tichodroma muriaria}]

1: mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia [syn: {common polypody}, {adder's...

1: European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots [syn: {Teucrium chamaedrys}]

1: decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings" [syn: {hanging}]

1: enclose with a wall [syn: {wall up}]

1: the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers; "the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up" [syn: {blue wall of si...

1: a painting that is applied to a wall surface [syn: {mural}]

1: paneling that forms part of a wall

1: herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers [syn: {pellitory-of-the-wall}, {pellitory}, {Parietaria difussa}]

1: mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover [syn: {Sedum acre}]

1: plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load

1: receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices [syn: {wall socket}, {electric outlet}, {electrical outlet}, {outlet}, {electric receptacle}]

1: a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault

1: yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places; an adventive weed in North America [syn: {Diplotaxis muralis}, {Diplotaxis tenuifolia}]

1: small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America [syn: {wall rue spleenwort}, {Asplenium ruta-muraria}]

1: small delicate spleenwort found on a steep slope (as a wall or cliff) of Eurasia and North America [syn: {wall rue}, {Asplenium ruta-muraria}]

1: receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices [syn: {wall plug}, {electric outlet}, {electrical outlet}, {outlet}, {electric receptacle}]

1: a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance [syn: {Wall Street}]

1: a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance [syn: {Wall St.}] 2: used to allude to the securities industry of the United States [syn: {the S...

1: a canvas tent with four vertical walls

1: a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room

1: enclose with a wall [syn: {wall in}]

1: lacking walls; "the wall-less ground floor is open to the winds" [ant: {walled}]

1: a worker who papers walls [syn: {wallpaperer}]

1: a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border

1: any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos often brightly colored [syn: {brush kangaroo}]

1: Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-130...

1: United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937) [syn: {Carothers}, {Wallace Hume Carothers}]

1: United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937) [syn: {Carothers}, {Wallace Carothers}]

1: United States poet (1879-1955) [syn: {Stevens}]

1: usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah"

1: thin sheet used to cover walls or partitions

1: having or surrounded by walls or walls of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; "the ancient walled city of Jerico"; "thick-walled cells" [ant: {wall-less}]

1: Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634) [syn: {Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein}]

1: United States jazz musician (1904-1943) [syn: {Fats Waller}, {Thomas Wright Waller}]

1: a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money [syn: {billfold}, {notecase}, {pocketbook}]

1: strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward [syn: {divergent strabismus}, {exotropia}] 2: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: {walleyed pike}, {jack salmon}, {Stizostedion vitreum}]

1: having divergent strabismus [ant: {cross-eyed}]

1: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: {walleye}, {jack salmon}, {Stizostedion vitreum}]

1: any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers 2: perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow...

1: United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication [syn: {Simpson}, {Mrs. Simpson}, {Wallis Warfield Windsor}, {Duchess of Windsor}]