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▪ I. † walled, a. Obs.
[f. wall n.3 + -ed2. Cf. wall v.4]
Of a horse's eye: Affected with ‘wall-eye’.
1577–8in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 396 One grey trotting curtoll mare, crapped on the further yeare, and the neare ie walled. 1672Lond. Gaz. No. 713/4 A dapple gray Gelding, near 15 hands high, both eies walled. 1705Ibid. No. 4182/4 A brown bay Mare,..one walled Eye, the other about half walled.
▪ II. walled, ppl. a.|wɔːld|
[f. wall v.2 + -ed1.]
1. a. Furnished with or as with a wall, enclosed with a wall. Of a town, etc.: Surrounded or protected with fortifications. Of a well, cistern, pond, the sides of a cavity, etc.: Lined or faced with masonry.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) xxx. 27 [22] On ceastre ᵹewealledre [Vulg. in civitate munita]. 13..K. Alis. 6068 They haden wallid cite townes, In dalis, and eke in downes. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye ii. 72 Cytyes and Castelles and walled townes. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. iv. 7 Twelue Cities, and seuen walled Townes of strength. 1605― Lear v. iii. 18 And wee'l weare out In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 22 Each Town or City wall'd On this side the broad lake Genezaret. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 191 On one side of this cathedral is a walled terrass. 1789Ir. Act 29 Geo. III, c. 33 §25 Walled deer-parks, and planted avenues excepted. 1819W. S. Rose Lett. N. Italy II. 85 note, Oblong pieces of walled ground, planted with fruit-trees. 1839Ure Dict. Arts, etc. 820 [These] have led to the contrivance of surrounding the area on which the roasting takes place with three little walls or with four... This is what is called a walled area. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 376 A walled Bulgarian village. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 130 A succession of..terraced gardens... Their walled sides are thickly clothed with Calceolarias, Celsias [etc.]. 1895Outing XXVII. 237/2 Neptune's Grotto is an enchanting, walled fish-pond.
fig.1907Raleigh Shakespeare 201 Bereavement or crime breaking in upon the walled serenity of daily life.
b. with qualifying word prefixed.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 24 Þe whilk es a strang citee and a wele walled. 1871W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) I. 267 A great double-walled dyke. 1901C. Holland Mousmé 18 Our little fragile-walled house on the hillside at Nagasaki.
2. With advs.a. walled-up, closed or blocked up with masonry. walled-in, enclosed by walls.
1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey II. xlix. 132 Bonne is a good town, well walled-in, pleasantly situated. 1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 118 A..large walled-in garden. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge I. 219 The third chamber has another old walled-up window. 1903F. W. H. Myers Human Personality 103 Like wine found in a walled up cellar. 1906C. Bigg Wayside Sk. Eccl. Hist. i. 12 In front of the church was a walled-in court.
b. walled-in, walled-up, entombed in a wall.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. v. ix, Crowds..gaze on the skeletons found walled-up. 1903Daily Chron. 11 Feb. 3/6 The remains of a walled-in nun were discovered.
3. Anat. and Zool. Furnished with a ‘wall’ or investing structure: chiefly in parasynthetic formations. Also walled-off, separated by a ‘wall’.
1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1877) 201 The atrium: thin-walled, rounded, lies on the dorsal aspect of the truncus and ventricle. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 362 It was a smooth walled cavity,..about the size of a small marble. 1906Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 70 A small walled-off pocket of pus.
4. Of the nature of a wall, made of stone-work.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 115 Where stones can be easily procured,..walled fences may be preferable. |