Obs. [f. WALL v.1 + -ING2.]
1. Boiling: said of liquids, molten metal, etc. In OE. often fig., fervent. Also in phr. wallinde hot, boiling hot, walling wood, raging mad.
c. 1000. Ælfric, On N. T. (Gr.), 16. Se het ʓenyman þone halʓan apostol and on weallendum ele he het hine baðian.
12[?]. Moral Ode (Egerton MS.), 218. His bæþ sceal beo wealliende pich his bed burnende glede.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 246. Þu hauest forschalded, he seið, þe drake heaued mid wallinde watere, þet is, mid hote teares.
a. 1225. Juliana (Royal MS.), 30. Elewsius … bed … wallinde breas … healden on hire heauet þat hit urne endelong hire leofliche bodi. Ibid., 70. Hit [the boiling pitch] colede anan … ant leop wallinde hat up aȝein þeo ilke þat hit hefden iȝarket.
c. 1275. xi Pains of Hell, 75, in O. E. Misc., 149. Fvrþer þer is a water wallinde hot.
13[?]. K. Alis., 1622 (W.). With hot water and wallyng metal They defendid heore wal.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1762. Wiȝt wallande Ioye warmed his hert.
13[?]. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xxxvii. 945. Aȝeyn o drauȝt þei drinke ouer-muche þei schul han þre or two Of hot led and walled [? read wallend] bras.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 147/21. Þer was a tonne of bras, full of wallyng oyle.
16[?]. Eger & Grine, 1057, in Percy Fol. MS., I. 387. Gray-Steele went walling woode.
2. Of the sea, waves: Boiling up, raging. Of water: Welling up, flowing abundantly.
Beowulf, 546 (Gr.). Oþ þæt unc flod todraf wado weallende, wedera cealdost.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 365. My herte was al with mysse remorde, As wallande water gos out of welle.
b. Abundant.
a. 1400. Destr. Troy, 13120. Of all his wallond wele walt he no gode.
