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.]
WALLOW
Wal"low, v. t.
Defn: To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.
WALLOW
Wal"low, n.
Defn: A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.
WALLOWER
Wal"low*er, n.
1. One who, or that which, wallows.
2. (Mach.)