Definition of wall

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Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room..

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Blank :: Blank (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness..
Comb :: Comb (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb..
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
Podium :: Podium (n.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall..
Parapet :: Parapet (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like..
Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..
Typhlosole :: Typhlosole (n.) A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals..
Lignification :: Lignification (n.) A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin..
Countermure :: Countermure (v. t.) To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..
Plaque :: Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch..
Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich..
Cornish :: Cornish (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall..
Absorbent :: Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Urethroplasty :: Urethroplasty (n.) An operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra.
Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..
Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot..
Foraminifera :: Foraminifera (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda..
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall..
Window :: Window (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure..
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