writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
2.
a style or manner of writing by hand, esp. that which characterizes a particular person; penmanship: an eccentric handwriting.
3.
a handwritten document; manuscript.
—Idiom
4.
handwriting on the wall, a premonition, portent, or clear indication, esp. of failure or disaster: The company had ignored the handwriting on the wall and was plunged into bankruptcy. Also, writing on the wall.
Origin: 1375–1425; late ME hand writyng;see hand+ writing
An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.
A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes. Often used in the plural.
A structure of stonework, cement, or other material built to retain a flow of water.
Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part: the abdominal wall.
Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength: a wall of silence; a wall of fog.
An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin: driven to the wall by poverty.
Sports The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.
tr.v.
walled, wall·ing, walls
To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall: wall up an old window. See Synonyms at enclose.
To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off:wall off half a room.
To confine or seal behind a wall; immure: "I determined to wall [the body] up in the cellar"(Edgar Allan Poe).
To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.
[Middle English, from Old English weall, from Latin vallum, palisade, from vallus, stake.] wall'less adj.