Wallow

(wŏl'lo), v. i. [imp. & p. p. WALLOWED; p. pr. & vb. n. WALLOWING.] [O. Eng. walwe, A-S. wealwian, wealwian, walwian, O. H. Ger. walagōn, walgōn, Goth. walwjan, allied to Skr. valg, to move one's self or itself.]

1Sense 1. To roll one's self about, as in mire or on other substance; 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.

2Sense 2. To move heavily and clumsily. [Rare.]

Part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. Milton.

3Sense 3. 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, . . . and fixes upon him as an object of his distinguishing mercy. South.

4Sense 4. To wither; to fade. [Scot. and Prov. Eng.]

v. t. To roll or tumble in any thing defiling or unclean.

Wallow thyself in ashes. Jer. vi. 26.

n. A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the French new wallow. Dryden.