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English Dictionary: Wilding by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Wilding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wilding
n
  1. a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
  2. an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women
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.
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