Definition of wall

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Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder..

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Coping :: Coping (n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping..
Undermine :: Undermine (v. t.) To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall..
Pilaster :: Pilaster (n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less..
Partition :: Partition (v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
Siding :: Siding (n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like..
Swallowtail :: Swallowtail (n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
Wall :: 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..
Salagane :: Salagane (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.
Water Gang :: Water gang () A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes..
Stoneroot :: Stoner (n.) One who walls with stones.
Parapet :: Parapet (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like..
Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation..
Ectoblast :: Ectoblast (n.) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall.
Ovisac :: Ovisac (n.) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
Eventration :: Eventration (n.) A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen..
Inwalling :: Inwalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inwal.
Circummure :: Circummure (v. t.) To encompass with a wall.
Tablature :: Tablature (n.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general..
Guttle :: Guttle (n.) To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Bole :: Bole (n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet..
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