Word Meanings - WALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of making a wall or walls. 2. Walls, in general; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the

Additional info about word: WALLING

1. The act of making a wall or walls. 2. Walls, in general; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like. Fairholt.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• WALLETEER
  One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. Wright.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• TALLOWY
  Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• WALLING
  1. The act of making a wall or walls. 2. Walls, in general; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• POT-WALLOPER
  1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled his own pot in the parish for six months. 2. One who cleans pots; a scullion.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,