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wallow

n. எருமை புரளிடம், சேற்றிடம், (வினை.) சேற்றில் புரளு, கிடந்து புரளு, கீழ்த்தர இன்பத்தில் கிடந்து மகிழ்.


Wal"low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.] Etym: [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. *147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.] 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.] Wal"low, v. t. Defn: To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26. Wal"low, n. Defn: A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.


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