5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t.
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
``Wallow thyself in ashes.'' --Jer. vi 26.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wallow \Wal"low\, n.
A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss and one the new French wallow.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wallow \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.
[root]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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wallow \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wallow
n 1: a puddle where animals go to wallow
2: an indolent or clumsy rolling about: "a good wallow in the
water"
v 1: devote oneself entirely to something indulge in to an
immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in
luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"
2: roll around as of a pig in mud [syn: {welter}]
3: billow forth; as of smoke or waves [syn: {billow}]
4: be ecstatic with joy [syn: {revel}, {rejoice}, {triumph}]
5: delight greatly in "wallow in your success!"
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