English Dictionary: Wilding | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for Wilding | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wilding \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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wilding \Wild"ing\, a. Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic] [bd]Wilding flowers.[b8] --Tennyson. The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by. --Bryant. |