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.]
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Wal"low, v. t.
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
"
Wallow thyself in ashes."
Jer. vi. 26.
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Wal"low, n.
A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
Dryden.
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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.
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