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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. √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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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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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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