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One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker; as:

grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land.

Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins.

To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.

A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. Brande & C.

yrean rung With Hallelujahs. Milton. In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs." Sharp.

A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress. Without any halt they marched. Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.

man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. Prov. xiii. 20.

To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. Shak.

erry on the rudest hedge. Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson.

To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. The friar was hobbling the same way too. Dryden.

To walk as cattle. [R.] William Scott.

To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden.

Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.] The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.

o great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four. Ray. Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet. Ludlow. Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition. Macaulay.…

e or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale. Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening. Arbuthnot.

One who educates; an instructor. [Obs.] Walker.

sitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk). The Lacedemonians, at the Straits of Thermopylæ, when their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth. Dryden. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grows romantic, I must paint it. Pope. Its self.…