Meaning of WILDING
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- [n] an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
- [n] a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crab-apple tree)
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| See Also: | | flora, plant, plant life, rampage, violent disorder, wild flower, wildflower | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Wild"ing\, n. (Bot.)
A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree
or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. --Spenser.
Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. --Dryden.
The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice,
and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
--Landor.
\Wild"ing\, a.
Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic]
``Wilding flowers.'' --Tennyson.
The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the
wilding bee hums merrily by. --Bryant.
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