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Webster 1913 Edition

Wallow

Wal′low

,
Verb.
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
,
Noun.
]
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.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
T.
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
“Wallow thyself in ashes.”
Jer. vi. 26.

Wal′low

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Wallow

WALLOW

,
Verb.
I.
[L., G. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, &c.]
1.
To roll ones body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water. Swine wallow in the mire.
2.
To move heavily and clumsily.
Part huge of bulk, wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest the ocean. [Unusual.]
3.
To live in filth or gross vice; as man wallowing in his native impurity.

WALLOW

,
Verb.
T.
To roll ones body.
Wallow thyself in ashes. Jeremiah 6.

WALLOW

,
Noun.
A kind of rolling walk.

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