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English (Lancashire) : unexplained.Nicholas Waln came from the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to New Castle, DE, in 1682. A Philadelphia, PA, Waln family flourished in the second half of the 18th century.
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An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye.
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A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.
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The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.
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An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.
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An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia).
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The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
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A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites.
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The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
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A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.
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A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin.
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To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
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A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.
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A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.