Wallow

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Wallow - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

WALLOW, v.i. [L., G. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, _c.]

1. To roll ones body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water. Swine wallow in the mire.

2. To move heavily and clumsily.

Part huge of bulk, wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest the ocean. [Unusual.]

3. To live in filth or gross vice; as man wallowing in his native impurity.

WALLOW, v.t. To roll ones body.

Wallow thyself in ashes. Jer 6.

WALLOW, n. A kind of rolling walk.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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