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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wither; to fade. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. “Wallow thyself in ashes.” Jer. vi. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of rolling walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of wallowing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, wallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) A lantern wheel; a trundle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Scot. wallow to fade or wither. ] Flat; insipid. [ Obs. ] Overbury. [ 1913 Webster ]