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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Waller, Edmund 1606-1687. English poet known for his harmonious love lyrics, including "Go, Lovely Rose” (1645).
- Waller, Thomas Wright Known as "Fats.” 1904-1943. American jazz musician and composer whose many songs include "Honeysuckle Rose” and "Ain't Misbehavin'” (both 1929).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A catfish, Silurus glanis, found in fresh waters of Europe.
- n. One who builds walls.
- n. One who boils salt, takes it out of the leads, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A surname.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who builds walls.
- n. (Zoöl.) The wels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
Examples
“It's not a real bird boiling in a pot and the artist Patricia Waller is also probably an animal lover (with a weird sense of humor).”
“Peter, you probably don't watch Smallville (good for you) but recently on the series Amanda Waller is being played by Pam Grier.”
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“Alex Waller is a biomechanical engineer in Kansas City, MO.”
“It was the setting (with the name changed) for the climactic scene in Waller's book "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze".”
“Waller is quite an elegant writer, even for a story such as this.”
“Descendants of John Waller, gent., of "Newport," Spotsylvania, of the name Waller married into the following families:”
“A litter they fashioned from a lid of a chest while the search was going on, and I was lifted upon it with due regard to my wounds, which I thought a generous thing of Captain Waller, inasmuch as his own face was frowning with the pain of the wound which I had given him, but he was a brave man, and a brave man is ever a generous foe.”
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“Captain Waller was a young man, and a brave one, and never to my dying day shall I forget that face which I had the power to still with death.”
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“I stood there, and Captain Waller rode up with his soldiers, and flashing his sword before my face like a streak of fire, bade me surrender in the name of his Majesty, and stand aside.”
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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