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3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; — said of things or persons expected to remain
quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead
May walk again. Shak.
When was it she last walked? Shak. 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." Spenser.
Do you think I'd walk in any plot? B. Jonson.
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer. 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor. 6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.]
He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser. To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. — To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual
appetites, and to live in sin. Rom. viii. 1. — To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the
counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. Rom. viii. 1. — To walk by faith (Script.),
to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Cor. v. 7.
— To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. 1 John i. 6. — To walk in
the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Cor. x. 3.
— To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1
John i. 7. — To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; — said of a horse when there is
no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. — To walk through the fire
(Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isa. xliii. 2. — To walk with God (Script.), to live
in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.
Walk
(Walk), v. t.
1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
As we walk our earthly round. Keble. 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. " I will rather trust .
. . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." Shak.
3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to
full. [Obs. or Scot.]
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; — an expression derived from
the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they
would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.
Walk
(Walk), n.
1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
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