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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Wild is a small stream in Germany and The Netherlands. If flows south of the German town of Elten and north of the Dutch town of Spijk . It used to be an old branch of the Rhine . North of Lobith it flows into the Oude Rijn . Category:Landforms of Gelderland ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to run wild, refuse to be tamed," Old English awildian (see wild (adj.)). Wilding (n.) in the teen gang sense first recorded 1989. Earlier it meant "plant that grows without cultivation" (1520s).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wild \Wild\, a. [Compar. Wilder ; superl. Wildest .] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of uncertain ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
untamed; not domesticated. adv. inaccurately; not on target. n. 1 The undomesticated state of a wild animal 2 (context chiefly in the plural English) a wilderness v To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a ...

Usage examples of wild.

Now Ralph, he and his, being known for friends, these wild men could not make enough of them, and as it were, compelled them to abide there three days, feasting them, and making them all the cheer they might.

I also became acquainted there with the Count of Roquendorf and Count Sarotin, and with several noble young ladies who are called in Germany frauleins, and with a baroness who had led a pretty wild life, but who could yet captivate a man.

He knew that Tarrian was right and that even now the wolf would be silently prowling the dark edges of his addled mind to protect him from unseen dangers, just as its wilder fellows would prowl the woods in search of prey.

The impunity of rapine had increased the boldness and numbers of the wild Isaurians: those robbers descended from their craggy mountains to ravage the adjacent country, and had even presumed, though without success, to besiege the important city of Seleucia, which was defended by a garrison of three Roman legions.

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

Elf-lords would ride at times, even from afar, for the land was wild but very fair.

Every weekend, the Yanks had a wild brawl down on the se afront and the police were called in.

Pleistocene Age, when the world warmed up and people became much more mobile, and that the cultivation of wild species, before agriculture proper, encouraged the birth of more children.

Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.

And albeit that the wild men know not to a day when we shall pass through their country, yet they know the time within a four and twenty hours or so.

But for all his skill in the wilds, Alec had always found towns rather baffling.

Settling beside him, Alec looked out at the wild beauty of the night and let out a happy sigh.

When a bold hunch leads them from a wild murder investigation to a red-hot love affair, Amaryllis is shocked, Lucas is delighted-- and no power on heaven, earth or St.

Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.

He had a vast holding of his own, and Ancar guessed from descriptions that it was to the south and west of Rethwellan, out in the lands purportedly still despoiled by wild magic.