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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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