Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wallow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t.
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
``Wallow thyself in ashes.'' --Jer. vi. 26.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wallow \Wal"low\, n.
A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wallow \Wal"low\, n.
1. Act of wallowing.
2. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the
depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a
buffalo wallow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wallow
n 1: a puddle where animals go to wallow
2: an indolent or clumsy rolling about: "a good wallow in the
water"
v 1: devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an
immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in
luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"
2: roll around, as of a pig in mud [syn: {welter}]
3: billow forth; as of smoke or waves [syn: {billow}]
4: be ecstatic with joy [syn: {revel}, {rejoice}, {triumph}]
5: delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"
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