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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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