Vocabulary : Wallerian degeneration to Wallop

Wallerian degeneration : A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
Wallet : A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. ;; A pocketbook for keeping money about the person. ;; Anything protuberant and swagging.
Walleteer : One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.
Wall-eye : An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. ;; An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch. ;; A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). ;; The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Wall-eyed : Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
Wallflower : In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower. ;; A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls. ;; A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.
Wallhick : The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Walling : of Wall ;; The act of making a wall or walls. ;; Walls, in general; material for walls.
Walloons : A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.
Wallop : To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. ;; A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. ;; To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. ;; To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. ;; To be slatternly. ;; To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. ;; To wrap up temporarily. ;; To throw or tumble over. ;; A thick piece of fat. ;; A blow.
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