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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Hirundo :: Hirundo (n.) A genus of birds including the swallows and martins.
Vallum :: Vallum (n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification..
Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc..
Wallowish :: Wallowish (a.) Flat; insipid.
Cortile :: Cortile (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
Rib :: Rib (n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
Ancone :: Ancone (n.) The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter..
Penthouse :: Penthouse (n.) A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively..
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room..
Elvan :: Elvan (a.) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course..
Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Ivy :: Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers..
Greisen :: Greisen (n.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony..
Interstice :: Interstice (n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall..
Daubing :: Daubing (n.) A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.
Tossing :: Tossing (n.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall..
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