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wallow


  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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