WALLOW

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

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.
v.

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

4.
v.

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

5.
n.

A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.


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