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Wilding

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.

Wilding

Wilding \Wild"ing\, a. 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.

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wilding

Etymology 1

  1. (context poetic English) Not tame or cultivated; wild. n. 1 A wild apple or apple-tree. 2 Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, wild apple, etc. v

  2. (present participle of wild English) Etymology 2

    n. (context usually in the plural philately English) Any British stamp with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.

WordNet
wilding
  1. n. a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crab-apple tree)

  2. an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women

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Wilding

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Usage examples of "wilding".

For they could find nothing else upon the Sand, neither arbute, wilding, shrub, nor Thyme.

Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.

Wilding from a door of communication between his private counting-house and that in which his clerks sat, the Head Cellarman of the cellars of Wilding and Co.

But the next instant he caught his breath again, for a ringing voice was heard without demanding to see His Grace of Albemarle at once, and the voice was the voice of Anthony Wilding.

But Brainard hadn't been born in Wyoming Keep, so he'd had no idea that Wilding was prominent even within his class.

The ensign was three calendar years younger than Wilding himself, but Brainard had been born with a soul as solid as the planetary mantle.

Wilding claimed he couldn't hit anything with it, but Brainard had seen the aristocrat nail the slug while he was running to save Leaf.

He insisted that Wilding and Grey should shake hands before the breaking up of that most astounding council, and as he had done last night, he now again imposed upon them his commands that they must not allow this matter to go further.

They knew what had taken place, and knowing it, Trenchard smoked on placidly, satisfied that Wilding had been in time, whilst Richard stood stricken and petrified by dismay at realizing, with even greater certainty, that something had supervened to thwart, perhaps to destroy, Sir Rowland.

Wilding by good fortune was at home, hard at work upon a mass of documents in that same library where she had talked with him on the occasion of her first visit to his home - to the home of which she remembered that she was now, herself, the mistress.