KJV Dictionary Definition: wallow

wallow

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. Jeremiah 6.

WALLOW, n. A kind of rolling walk.

wallower

WALLOWER, n. One that rolls in mire.

wallowing

WALLOWING, ppr. Rolling the body on any thing.