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f Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." Shak. Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.

To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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.

One who, or that which, wallows.

Flat; insipid. [Obs.] Overbury.

The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

See under 1st Bank, n.

A wall made of clay mixed with straw.

See Inwall. Sir P. Sidney.

To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.

A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [Written also gaddwell.]

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe. [Prov. Eng.]

To inclose or fortify as with a wall. Spenser.

The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater. [Written also modwall.]

The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance. Shak.

he passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

The common tern.

A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.

Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.

A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or V. Pyrenaica). [Obs.] [Written also setwal.] Chaucer.