n.
A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
n. pl.
A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
n.
One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
n.
In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.
n.
A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.
n.
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
n.
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
n.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
n.
A wale knot, or wall knot.
v. t.
To mark with wales, or stripes.
v. t.
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
v. i.
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
v. i.
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.