Wild

wild, a. Living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated; growing or produced without culture; native; desert; not inhabited; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; not submitted to restraint, Wigwam, training, or regulation turbulent; violent; inordinate; fanciful; visionary; crazy; exposed to wind and sea; unsheltered; indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or bewilderment. — n. An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or sandy desert; wilderne . [AS., D., and G.; Ic. villr, for vildr, wild, astray, bewildered, confused, Goth, will he is, wild, uncultivated, prob. orig. actuated by will (= AS. will a): cf. W. gwyllt, wild, savage, gwyllys, the will, q.v.; bewilder: see Will.] Wild prefixed to the names of many plants, to distinguish them such as are cultivated in gardens. — W. boar. An animal of the hog kind from which the domesticated swine is descended. — Wcat. An a n m a of the cat family, stronger and fiercer than the domestic cat, Wild Cat. destruc v e to small domestic animals. — W. goose chase. The eve, term In, Ice 5dd. tone. 6r 699 WILE 679 pursuit of something as unlikely to be caught as a wild goose. — To sow one's w. oats. To pa through a season of wild and thoughtle di ipation, as in youth. — Wild'ine, n. A wild crab-apple; a young tree growing without cultivation.— Wildly, adv. In a wild condition or manner; heedle ly: irrationally; fiercely; irregularly; licentiously.— 'Wild'ne , n. — Wild'-fire, n. A composition of inflammable materials, which when inflamed very hard to quench; Greek fire.—Wil'der, wYKder, [-df.red (-dSrd),-DEEiNG.] To cause to lose the way or track; to bewilder. — Wil'derne , n. A tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain a wild waste; desert; part of a garden, etc., where there unchecked overgrowth or confusing superabundance. [ME. wtlderne, also vnlderne e, a desert, wild place, AS. wilder, a wild animal, abbr. of ivild deor, wild deer.]