Wilding

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.  --Dryden.


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           The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice,
           and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
                                                    --Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wilding \Wild"ing\, a.
     Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic]
     "Wilding flowers." --Tennyson.
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           The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den,
           And the wilding bee hums merrily by.     --Bryant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wilding
       n 1: a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or
            crab-apple tree)
       2: an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by
          men on women