noun. An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.

noun. A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes.

noun. A structure of stonework, cement, or other material built to retain a flow of water.

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noun. Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part.

noun. Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength.

noun. An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin.

noun. The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.

transitive verb. To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall: synonym: enclose.

transitive verb. To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off:

transitive verb. To confine or seal behind a wall; immure.

transitive verb. To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.

idiom. (off the wall) Extremely unconventional.

idiom. (off the wall) Without foundation; ridiculous.

idiom. (up the wall) Into a state of extreme frustration, anger, or distress.

idiom. (writing/handwriting) An ominous indication of the course of future events.

To boil.

To well, as water; spring.

To inclose with a wall or as with a wall; furnish with walls: as, to wall a city.

To defend by walls; fortify.

To obstruct or hinder as by a wall.

To fill up with a wall.

In English university slang, same as gate.

noun. A spring of water.

noun. Abbreviations of Wallachian.

noun. A disease of the eyes: same as walleye.

noun. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, serving to inclose a space, form a division, support, superincumbent weight, or afford a defense, shelter, or security.

noun. A solid and permanent inclosing fence of masonry, as around a field, a garden, a park, or a town.

noun. A rampart; a fortified enceinte or barrier: often in the plural. See cuts under chemm-deronde, fortification, and retaining wall.

noun. Something which resembles or suggests a wall: as, a wall of armed men; a wall of fire.

noun. A defense; means of security or protection.

noun. In mining, one of the surfaces of rock between which the vein or lode is inclosed; the country, or country rock, adjacent to the vein. See vein.

noun. In heraldry, a bearing having some resemblance to a wall, usually embattled.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a paries; an extended investing or containing structure or part of the body: as, a cell-wall; the walls of the chest or abdomen: generally in the plural

noun. In cor als, the proper outer investment of the visceral chamber, whether of a single corallum or of a single corallite of a compound corallum.

noun. Same as wall-knot

transitive verb. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

transitive verb. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.

transitive verb. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

noun. A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

noun. a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double, crowned or double-crowned.

noun. 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.

noun. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.

noun. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel.

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noun. The side of a level or drift.

noun. The country rock bounding a vein laterally.

noun. Blind wall, etc. See under Blank, Blind, etc.

noun. to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over.

noun. to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes.

"We may refer to all sets adapted to be mounted on a wall or partition as _wall telephones_, and to all in which the receiver, transmitter, and hook are provided with a standard of their own to enable them to rest on any flat surface, such as a desk or table, as _desk telephones_."

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