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Webster 1913 Edition


Wilding

Wild′ing

,
Noun.
(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

,
Adj.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wilding

WILDING

,
Noun.
A wild sour apple.