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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Able to walk despite injury or illness.
  2. adj. Regarded as having the capabilities or qualities of a specified object: a teacher who is a walking dictionary.
  3. adj. Used, intended, or suitable for walking: walking clothes; a walking trail; walking distance.
  4. adj. Marked by the act of walking: a walking trip.
  5. adj. Guided by a person who walks alongside. Used of a machine or farming tool.
  6. n. The action of one that walks.
  7. n. The state of the surface on which one walks: The walking was treacherous after the ice storm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Proceeding at a walk; proceeding on foot; not standing still.
  2. n. The act or process of fulling cloth.
  3. n. A mode or manner of behaving or living.
  4. n. The act of one who or that which walks.

Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of walk.
  2. n. Gerund of Xyzy}}.
  3. adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
  4. adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
  5. adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. a. & n. from walk, v.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of traveling by foot
  2. adj. close enough to be walked to

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