Definition of wall

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Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.

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Breach :: Breach (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city..
Underpinning :: Underpinning (n.) That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed..
Wallerian Degeneration :: Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850..
Partition :: Partition (v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house..
Inspiration :: Inspiration (n.) The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration..
Screed :: Screed (n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office..
Pier :: Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
Tapestry :: Tapestry (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery..
Calcimine :: Calcimine (v. t.) To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls..
Bump :: Bump (v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall..
Guzzle :: Guzzle (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
Merge :: Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Hanging :: Hanging (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural..
Vallum :: Vallum (n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification..
Bed :: Bed (n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth..
Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc..
Facing :: Facing (n.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used..
Thorax :: Thorax (n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest..
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