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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. Wall knot, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots…

ttan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country.…

m) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.

Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth.

The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov. Eng.]

Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).

A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

maller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains. [Written also wallabee, and whallabee.]

Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. -- n.

See Wallachian.

A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger. [Written also walla.]

es of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

The spotted flycatcher. [Prov. Eng.]

One who builds walls.

generation occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.

Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh." Shak.

One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright.

wers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor). [Prov. Eng.]

The act of making a wall or walls.