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Wal"low (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.] [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. √147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.]

1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

I may wallow in the lily beds.
Shak.

2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
South.

3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wal"low, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.

Wal"low, n. A kind of rolling walk.

One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
Dryden.

Wal"low (?), n. 1. Act of wallowing.

2. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.

Wal"low (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.] [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. √147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.]

1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

I may wallow in the lily beds.
Shak.

2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
South.

3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wal"low, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.

Wal"low, n. A kind of rolling walk.

One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
Dryden.

Wal"low (?), n. 1. Act of wallowing.

2. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • (intransitive) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
         With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  • (intransitive) To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
  • (intransitive) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • (intransitive) To wither; to fade.
  • An instance of wallowing.
  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  • A kind of rolling walk.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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