Wallow

Definition of Wallow

Wal´low

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Wallowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.]
	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.
v. t.	1.	To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
n.	1.	A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. - Dryden.
	2.	Act of wallowing.
	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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