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.

 

© Webster 1913.


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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