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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



36 words match “WALKER”

FUNAMBULO; FUNAMBULUS n.
A ropewalker or ropedancer. [Obs.] Bacon.
GOER n.
One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker; as:
INSTITUTOR n.
One who educates; an instructor. [Obs.] Walker.
LATINITASTER n.
One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.
ODOGRAPH n.
device for recording the length and rapidity of stride and the number of steps taken by a walker.
PEDESTRIAN n.
A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
PHYSIOCRAT n.
y, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order. F. A. Walker. -- Phys`i*o*crat"ic, a.
PREGUSTATION n.
The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste. [R.] Dr. Walker (1678).
SOMNAMBULIST n.
A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
STRIKE n.
liance with demands made on their employer. Strikes are the insurrections of labor. F. A. Walker.
SUPPLY n.
price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price." F. A. Walker.
TRACKMAN n.
One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
UNDERPRODUCTION n.
The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker.
UTILITY n.
nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other. F. A. Walker.
VALUE n.
apin (Johnson's Cys.). Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange. F. A. Walker. His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price. Dryden.
WEALTH n.
ir care, provides. Dryden. Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. F. A. Walker. Active wealth. See under Active.
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