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In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
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A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
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A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
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An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
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The side of a level or drift.
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The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
v. t.
To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
v. t.
To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
v. t.
To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
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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.
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Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.
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A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
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Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.