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Disinterested. [Obs.] The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.

ithout law or order; irregularly; confusedly. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

al or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

on. Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. Dryden. Doubling and doubling with laborious walk. Wordsworth.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." Hazlitt.

ation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. Keble.

on. See under Contest. -- To make one's election, to choose. He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. Fitzed. Hall.

In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back. Walker.

dertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside.

Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository. Walker. Ex`e*get"ic*al*ly, adv.

important function confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson.

The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. "His favorite argument." Macaulay.

as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

glish to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling. O, had I but followed the arts! Shak. O Antony! I have followed thee to this. Shak. Follow board (Founding), a board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask. Knight. -- To follow the hounds, to h…