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Wallow \Wal"low\, n.
A kind of rolling walk.
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One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
--Dryden.
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2. Act of wallowing.
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3. 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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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.]
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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.
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I may wallow in the lily beds. --Shak.
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2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a
beastly and unworthy manner.
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God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
--South.
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3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Wallow \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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