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   Arm , n. [AS. arm, earm; akin to OHG. aram, G., D., Dan., & Sw. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms, L. armus arm, shoulder, and prob. to Gr.  joining, joint, shoulder, fr. the root  to join, to fit together; cf. Slav. rame. . See Art, Article.]
   The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
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   Anything resembling an arm; as, (a) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear. (b) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. (c) A branch of a tree. (d) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard. (e) (Naut) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke. (f) An inlet of water from the sea. (g) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.
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   Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.
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   To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
   Isa. lii. 1.
   
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   Arm's end, the end of the arm; a good distance off. Dryden. -- Arm's length, the length of the arm. -- Arm's reach, reach of the arm; the distance the arm can reach. -- To go (or walk) arm in arm, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. “When arm in armwe went along.” Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.
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   Walk , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Walking.] [OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. vālka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. √130.]
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   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.
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   At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
   Dan. iv. 29.
   
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   When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
   Matt. xiv. 29.
   
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   ☞ In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.
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   To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
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   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.
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   I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead
   May walk again.
   Shak.
   
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   When was it she last walked?
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   To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] “Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.” 
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   Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
   B. Jonson.
   
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   I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
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   To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
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   We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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   To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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   He will make their cows and garrans to walk.
   Spenser.
   
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   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.
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   Walk, v. t.
   To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
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   As we walk our earthly round.
   Keble.
   
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   To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. “ I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.” 
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   [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.]
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   (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant]
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   To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
   She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.
   C. E. Craddock.
   To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave. -- 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.
   
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   Walk, n.
   The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
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   The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
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   Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
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   That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
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   A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees
   Planted, with walks and bowers.
   Milton.
   
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   He had walk for a hundred sheep.
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   Amid the sound of steps that beat
   The murmuring walks like rain.
   Bryant.
   
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   A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
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   The mountains are his walks.
   Sandys.
   
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   He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.
   Pope.
   
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   Conduct; course of action; behavior.
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   The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]
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   In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
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   (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
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