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To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.

To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley.

Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.

Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.

The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor. [Obs.] "His doughty valiance." Spenser.

Performed with valor or bravery; heroic. "Thou bearest the highest name for valiant acts." Milton. [The saints] have made such valiant confessions. J. H. Newman. -- Val"iant*ly, adv. -- Val"iant*ness, n.

to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. For contemplation he and valor formed. Milton. When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with. Shak. Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor. B. Jonson.

Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.

To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.

One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper. Shak.

es. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.

Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. [Obs.] Shak. Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn. Chapman.

To assert; to aver; to declare. Shak.

To travel; to pass over; to traverse. With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. Milton.

paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not…

To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. As we walk our earthly round. Keble.

A fuller of cloth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought. Percy's Reliques.