Of a person or animal: To roll about, toss or tumble from side to side, while lying down or stretched out. Now rare except as in 3.

To roll or twist the body; to turn or tumble about; to lie and roll about; to writhe, to wriggle. Also with about. Now rare or Obsolete.

intransitive. Of a person or animal: to turn around a central point; to turn over repeatedly while lying down or stretched out. Also: to turn so as…

To turn and twist the body about, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over. Also with about, over, through. Also figurative.

intransitive. To toss about in bed; to roll around. Now Scottish.

intransitive. To move unsteadily; to flounder; to turn or toss about; to hobble; to jolt along.

Of a person or animal: To throw oneself or one's limbs about. Obsolete.

intransitive. To wriggle, writhe; to wallow.

intransitive. In early use, to stumble (cf. founder, v.). Subsequently, to struggle violently and clumsily; to plunge, roll and tumble about in or as…

intransitive. To toss oneself about; also, to rout, rummage (cf. touse, v. 5).