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wilding |
2 definitions found 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] ``Wilding flowers.'' --Tennyson. The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by --Bryant.
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