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a. & n. from Walk, v. Walking beam. See Beam, 10. -- Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. -- Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. -- Walking fish (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as O. marulius, become over four feet long…

Walking in one's sleep.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

Walking; moving from place to place. Gayton.

The act of walking. Sir T. Browne.

Walking. [R.]

Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot.

s motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.

pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Suitable for a cabinet; small. He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev.

oat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.

A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. Stir the fire with your master's cane. Swift.

able, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.] Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. -- To pawl…

q.] -- To change step, to take a break in the regular succession of steps, in marching or walking, as by bringing the hollow of one foot against the heel of the other, and then stepping off with the foot which is in advance.

A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. [Obs.]

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.