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or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak.

Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock. Dr. Prior.

A water lily (Nymphæa).

One who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or friendlily inclined.

ack or dark; as, white paper; a white skin. "Pearls white." Chaucer. White as the whitest lily on a stream. Longfellow.

large fleshy larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. -- Wood lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley. -- Wood lock (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. -- Wood louse (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of nume…

n nothing. Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields Pope.