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Wallow
Open directlyWebster'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.