wild train

A railroad train not running on schedule time and therefore not entitled to right of way over the track. wild-turkey, s. Ornith.: Meleagris gallopavo. [TURKEY.] wild-vine, s. Botany: Vitis labrusca , a North American vine, with broadly cordate, angularly sub-lobed leaves, tomentose beneath, small racemes of flowers, and large berries, inferior in value to those of the true vine. wild-williams, wild sweet-williams, s. pl. Bot.: Lychnis flos-cuculi. *wild-wind, s . A hurricane. "Then happened an Hirecano or wild -wind."- Fuller : Worthies; E ex , i. 338. IMG:content-0903.png:[blocks in formation] "What means this wilful silence?" Shakesp.: Richard III., iii. 7. *4. Willing, pleased, ready. "When walls are so wilful to hear without warning." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, v. *5. Regardle , reckle . "Like a wilful boy, that which I owe is lost." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , 1. 1. wil-fül-ly, will-fül-ly, wil-ful-li, * wylful-ly, adv . [Eng. willful ; -ly.] *1. Of free will; voluntarily. "Fede ye the flock of God that is among you, and pur1 Peter v. 2. "That which grows wildly of itself is worth nothing." -More. 2. In a rough, rude, or uncultivated manner or fashion. "Prisoners wildly overgrown with hair." Shakesp.: Henry V., v. 2. 3. Savagely, fiercely; as, to rage wildly . 4. In a disordered, perturbed, or agitated manner; with perturbation or distraction. "You who with haggard eyes stare wildly on me." Rowe Ambitious Stepmother, ii. 5. Without attention or care; heedle ly, foolishly, reckle ly. "I prattle something too wildly ." Shakesp.: Tempest, iii. 1. 6. Capriciously, extravagantly, irrationally. "Who is there so wildly sceptical as to question whether the sun shall rise in the east?"- Wilkins . IMG:content-0904.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0905.png:[blocks in formation] wil'-helm-Ite, s. [WILLEMITE.] wi-li-ly, adv. [English wily; -ly.] In a wily, cunning, or crafty manner; by stratagem or artifice; craftily. "They did work wilily ." -Joshua ix. 4.