walk

WALK, verb intransitive [G., to full, to felt hats; a fuller; to stir, to be agitated, to rove, to travel, to wander, to roll. Our ancestors appropriated the verb to moving on the feet, and the word is peculiarly expressive of that rolling or wagging motion which marks the walk of clownish people.]1. To move slowly on the feet; to step slowly along; to advance by steps moderately repeated; as animals. Walking in men differs from running only in the rapidity and length of the steps; but in quadrupeds, the motion or order of the feet is sometimes changed.At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Daniel 4:37.When Peter had come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matthew 14:29.2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement. Hundreds of students daily walk on Downing terrace in Cambridge.3. To appear, as a specter.The spirits of the dead may walk again.4. To act on any occasion.Do you think Id walk in any plot?5. To be in motion, as a clamorous tongue.Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.6. To act or move on the feet in sleep.When was it she last walkd? [But this is unusual. When we speak of noctambulation, we say, to walk in sleep.]7. To range; to be stirring.Affairs that walk as they say spirits do at midnight. [Unusual.]8. To move off; to depart.When he comes forth he will make their cows and garrans walk [Not elegant.9. In Scripture, to live and act or behave; to pursue a particular course of life.To walk with God, to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. Genesis 5:22.To walk in darkness, to live in ignorance, error and sin, without comfort. 1 John 1:36.To walk in the light, to live int he practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John 1:36.To walk by faith, to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Corinthians 5:7.To walk through the fire, to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isaiah 43:2.To walk after the flesh, to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Romans 8:1.To walk after the Spirit, to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit and by the word of God, and to live a life of holy deportment.To walk in the flesh, to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Corinthians 10:3.To walk in, to enter, as a house. walk in, gentlemen.WALK, verb transitive wauk.1. To pass through or upon; as, to walk the streets. [This is elliptical for to walk in or through the street.]2. To cause to walk or step slowly; to lead, drive or ride with a slow pace. He found the road so bad he was obliged to walk his horse. The coachman walked his horses from Woodbridge to Princeton.WALK, noun Wauk.1. The act of walking; the act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.2. The act of walking for air or exercise; as a morning walk; an evening walk 3. Manner of walking; gait; step. We often know a person in a distant apartment by his walk 4. Length of way or circuit through which one walks; or a place for walking; as a long walk; a short walk The gardens of the Tuilerie and of the Luxemburgh are very pleasant walks.5. An avenue set with trees.6. Way; road; range; place of wandering.The mountains are his walks.The starry walks above.7. Region; space.He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.8. Course of life or pursuit. This is not within the walk of the historian.9. The slowest pace of a horse, ox or other quadruped.10. A fish. [A mistake for whelk.]11. In the West Indies, a plantation of canes, etc.A sheep walk so called, is high and dry land where sheep pasture