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[ Ich can do wel gode wike . Owl and Nightingale , 1. 603. wike3 (wik), n. [Cf. wicker1 .] A temporary mark, as a twig or branchlet, used to divide swaths to be mown in commons, etc. Also called wicker . [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] wiking (wi'king), n. [An adaptation of AS. wicing : see viking . ] A viking. [Rare.] From the "wik," or creek where their long-ship lurked, the Wikings , or "creek-men," as the adventurers were called, pounced upon their prey. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 56. wikket, a. A Middle English spelling of wick7 . wild1 (wild), a. and n. [ wielde , also wille , will , wil , wild , untamed, wild, = OS. wild i = OFries. wilde = D. wild , savage, proud, = OHG. wild i, MHG. wilde, G. wild, wild, savage (as a noun, wild beasts, game), = Icel. villr (for * vildr ), wild, also bewildered, astray, confused, = Sw. Dan. vild = Goth. will he is , wild, uncultivated; prob. orig. 'self willed,' 'wilful,' with orig. pp. suffix -d (as in old, cold, etc.), from the root of will1; cf. W. gwyllt ; wild, savage, gwyllys , the will. Hence wild, n., wilderne , wilder, bewilder , etc.] I. a . 1. Self-willed; wayward; wanton; imp a The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary wild tient of restraint or control; stirring; lively; boisterous; full of life and spirits; hence, frolicsome; giddy; light-hearted. Pardon me if I suspect you still; you are too wild and airy to be constant to that affection. Shirley, Witty Fair One, ii. 2. That the wild little thing should take wing, and fly away the Lord knows whither! Colman, Jealous Wife, iii. A wild , unworldly-minded youth, given up To his own eager thoughts. Words worth, Prelude, iv. Philip was a dear, good, frank, amiable, wild fellow, and they all loved him. Thackeray , Philip, v. 2. Boisterous; tempestuous; stormy; violent; turbulent; furious; uncontrolled: used in both a physical and a moral sense. But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame, My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 229. His pa ions and his virtues lie confused, And mixt together in so wild a tumult That the whole man is quite disfigured in him. Add is on , Cato, iii. 2. 3t. Bold; brave; daring; wight. 6924 (b) Noting beasts of the chase, game-birds, and the like, which are noticeably shy, wary, or hard to take under certain circumstances: opposed to tamel, 1 (b) (2): as, the birds are wild this morning. 11. Savage; uncivilized; ungoverned; unrefined; ferocious; sanguinary: noting persons or practices. The wildest savagery. Shak ., K. John, iv. 3. 48. Nations yet wild by Precept to reclaim, And teach 'em Arms, and Arts, in William's Name. Prior, Carmen Seculare (1700), st. 37. With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave. Shak., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 390. It were good to try what would be the effect, if all the blo oms were pulled from a fruit-tree, or the acorns and chestnut buds, etc., from a wild tree. wildcat rich and Ehrenberg. These wild goats differ little from the common ibex of the Alps. - Wild goose, a bird of the goose kind, or genus Anser in a broad sense, which is wild or feral. In Great Britain the common wild goose is the graylag, Anser cinereus or fer us, and the term is applied to all the other species which visit that country. (See cut under graylag.) In North America wild goose unqualified commonly means the Canada goose, Bernicla can a dens is. See cut under Bernicla. - Wild-goose chase. See chase1.- Wild-goose plum. See plum. - Wild gourd. See vine of Sodom, under vine. - Wild hay, hide, honey, hy op. See the nouns. - Wild hop, the common bryony, Bryonia dioica. - Wild horse, any specimen of the horse, Equus cab all us, now living in a state of nature. The wild original of the horse is unknown. All the wild horses of America and Australia, and probably all those of Asia, are the ferine (not truly feral) descendants of the domestic horse, which have reverted to the wild state. -Wild huntsman, a legendary huntsman, especially in Germany, who with a phantom host goes careering over woods, fields, and villages during the night, accompanied with the shouts of huntsmen and the baying of hounds.-Wild hyacinth, in the United States, the eastern cama , Cama i a ( Scilla ) Fraser i; in England, the bluebell, Scilla nutans. Wild indigo. See Amorpha and Baptisia. Wild ipecac, ipecacuanha growing wild; also, Triosteum to them of the selue contre. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 32. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak ., Rich. II., ii. 3. 4. The plain was gra y, wild , and bare. Tennyson, Dying Swan. Long after night had overclouded the prospect I heard a wild wind rushing among trees. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, v. Of the gretist of Grece & of gret Troy, That he hade comyng with in company, & knew well the A wild shot, a random or chance shot. -Ethiopian wild As the worthiest to wale & wildest in Armys. persons, Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4023. 4. Loose and disorderly in conduct; given to going beyond bounds in pleasurable indulgence; ungoverned; more or le di olute, wayward, or unrestrained in conduct; prodigal. He kept company with the wild prince and Poins. boar. Same as halluf. See cut under Phacochœrus. Indian wild lime. See Limonia. - To ride the wild maret. See ride. - To run wild. (a) To grow wild or savage; take to vicious courses or a loose way of living. (b) To escape from domestication and revert to the feral state. (c) To escape from cultivation and grow in a wild state.To sow one's wild oats. See oat. - Wild allspice. Same as spice - bush. Wild ananas, angelica. See the nouns. - Wild animals, those animals, and especially those beasts, which have not been reclaimed from the feral state, or domesticated for the use and benefit of man: Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 2. 74. technically called feræ naturæ. - Wild anise-tree. See Suppose he has beene wild , let me a ure you He's now reclaim'd, and has my good opinion. Brome , Sparagus Garden, iv. 7. 5. Reckle ; rash; ill-considered; extravagant; out of accord with reason or prudence; hap- hazard: as, a wild venture; wild trading. If I chance to talk a little wild , forgive me; I had it from my father. Shak ., Hen. VIII., i. 4. 26. Are not our streets daily filled with wild pieces of jus- tice and random penalties? Add is on, Tatler, No. 253. anise. Wild apricot. See apricot. - Wild ash. See ash1.-Wild a , any member of that section of the genus Equus to which the domestic a belongs, except this species. There are several species or varieties, not all of which are well determined, native of northern Africa, and especially of western and central Asia. Some are very large, strong, and swift animals, which have been distinguished from remote antiquity, and were formerly hunted for sport or for their flesh. Representations of the chase of wild a es are found on A yrian monuments, and the Hebrew words translated 'wild a ' in the Bible indicate their swift-footed ne . See dziggetai and onager (with cuts) and hemione. - Wild balsam-apple, barley, basil. See the nouns. - Wild bean. See Apios and Strophostyles. - Wild bee, any bee excepting the hive-bee as domiciled by man. Both social and solitary wild bees are of very numerous species and many genera of the two families Apidæ and Andrenidæ. See these words, and also such distinctive names as bumblebee, carpenter - bee, upholsterer- bee, etc., with various cuts; also mason - bee, and cuts under Anthophora and Xylocopa. - Wild beet, Beta maritima of Europe, the supposed original of the cultivated beet; also, sometimes, the marsh-rosemary, Statice Limonium.-Wild bergamot, a strongly aromatic labiate plant, Monarda fistulosa, common in dry ground in North America. The corolla is commonly purplish, an inch long. - Wild birds, those birds which are not domesticated; Milton, P. L., v. 112. specifically, in Eng. law, those birds that come within the The wildest opinions of every kind were abroad, "divers and strange doctrines," with every wind of which men, having no longer an anchor whereby to hold, were carried about and to ed to and fro. Southey , Bunyan, p. 16. Johnson, the young bowler, is getting wild , and bowls a ball almost wide to the off. T. Hughes, Tom Brown's School-Days, ii. 8. 6. Extravagant; fantastic; irregular; disordered; weird; queer. Wild in their attire. Shak ., Macbeth, i. 3. 40. Oft in her [Reason's] absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft. When man to man gave willing faith, and loved A tale the better that 'twas wild and strange. provisions of an act pa ed in 1880, entitled the Wild Birds Protection Act, which prohibited the taking or killing of any wild bird between certain dates of each year, with some exceptions. But the species designated in the schedule annexed to the act were but about eighty in number, thus in caria australis, of New Zealand and Australia, having a tortuous stem and opposite branches of which the outermost form sharp spines, the leaves small, in fascicles, absent in old plants. - Wild Jalap. Same as man- of - the earth. - Wild jasmine. See jasmine and Izora. - Wild kale, land, lettuce, licorice, mangosteen, etc. See the nouns. Wild lemon, the May-apple Podophyllum peltatum: so named from the form and color of the fruit. - Wild lime. See lime3, Limonia, and tallow - nut. - Wild mahogany, the white mahogany of Jamaica, Antirrhoœa bifurcata. Wild mammee-apple, the West Indian tree Rheedia later i folia, of the Guttifera.- Wild mandrake, the May-apple Podophyllum peltatum. - Wild mango. See Spondias. - Wild mare. (a) The nightmare. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A seesaw. Shak., 2 len. IV., ii. 4. 268.-Wild marjoram. See marjoram, and cut under Origanum. -Wild masterwort. Same as herb - gerard. wild mustard, nep, oat. See the nouns. Wild okra. See Malachra.-Wild olive, onion, oyster. See the nouns. Wild orange. (a) See orange. (b) The West Indian euphorbiaceous tree Drypetes glauca. (c) Gærtnera τα ginata, of Réunion, without ground reported as a fit substitute for coffee: often misnamed mu ænda. -Wild peach. See wild orange. - Wild pear, pigeon, plum, potato, etc. See the nouns. - Wild pine. (a) The Scotch pine, Pinus sylvestris. (b) In the West Indies, a plant of the genus Tillandsia, especially T. utriculata. - Wild pineapple. See pineapple, 3, penguin2, and istle. - Wild pink. See Silene. - Wild prune. See Pappea. - Wild purslane, rice, sarsaparilla, etc. See the nouns. - Wild rye. See rye and Terrell gra . - Wild sheep, the wild original of the domestic sheep, or any feral species of the genus Oris in a broad sense. (See Ovis and sheep1.) Various species inhabit mountains and high plateaus of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, as the aoudad, the argali, the bighorn, the burrhel, the mouflon, etc. See the distinctive names, including cuts under aoudad, argali, bighorn, and thian -shan.-Wild silkworm, any silkworm other than the ordinary domesticated Sericaria mor i. See silkworm. -Wild snowball. Same as redroot, 1. - Wild Spaniard. Same as spear - gra , 3. - Wild spinach, squill, strawberry, succory, swan. See the nouns-Wild sweetpea. See Tephrosia. - Wild sweet-william. See Phlox. -Wild tamarind, tea, tobacco. See the nouns. tuberose. See Spirant hes. - Wild tulip, turkey, vanilla, vine, woad, etc. See the nouns. - Wild woodbine, the Virginia creeper. The yellow jasmine, Gelsemium sern pervirens, has been called Carolina wild woodbine. - Wild wormwood. See Parthenium. - Wild yam, See yam. =Syn. 1 and 6. Rude, impetuous, irregular, unrestrained, harebrained, frantic, frenzied, crazed, fanciful, visionary, strange, grotesque. Wild II. n. 1. A desert; an uninhabited and un And there, All wild to found an University For maidens, on the spur she fled. Tennyson, Prince , i. IMG:content-2380.png:[blocks in formation] must begin by a resolution to try for everything, and to consider no ball beyond his reach, no matter how wild. W. Camp, St. Nicholas, XVII. 831. 10. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting the forest or open field; roving: wandering; not tame; not domesticated; feral or ferine: as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee. More particularly - (a) Noting those animals which in their relation to man are legally styled feræ naturæ (which see, under fer a ): opposed to tamel, 1 (b) (1). There aboute ben many goude Hylles and fayre, and many fayre Woodes, and eke wylde Beestes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 127. In the same for rest are many wild Bores and wild Stagges, Coryat, Crudities, I. 35. land; and some of the commonest song-birds it was desired to protect by this act were left unspecified. - Wild boar, buckwheat. See the nouns. - Wild brier, the dogrose, Rosa can in a; also, the sweet-brier, Rosa rubiginosa.- Wild camomile. Same as feverfew, 1.- Wild canary, the American goldfinch, Spinus or Chrysomitris trist is. See cut under goldfinch. [Local, U.S.] - Wild caper. Same as caper - spurge (which see, under spurge ). Wild cat. See wildcat. - Wild celery. See Vallisneria. - Wild cherry, chestnut, china-tree, cicely. See the nouns. Wild cinnamon of the West Indies. See Ca nella1. - Wild clary, clove, cucumber, cumin. See the nouns.-Wild coffee. See coffee and Triosteum. Wild columbine. See honeysuckle, 2.- Wild cotton. ( a ) Same as cotton -gra . (b) See Ipomea. - Wild dog, any feral dog, or dog in the state of nature; also, a ferine dog, or one run wild after domestication; a pariah dog; specifically, the native wild dog of Australia, Canis dingo. See Canis, Cyon2, and cuts under buansuah, dhole, and dingo. - Wild dove, in the United States, the common Carolina dove, or mourning-dove, Zenaidura carol in ens is. The implied antithesis is wild pigeon, namely, the pa enger-pigeon. See cut under dove. - Wild duck, any duck excepting the domesticated duck; specifically, the wild original of the domestic duck, Anas boscas (or boschas, or bosk as ), See cut under mallard. - Wild elder. See elder2. Wild engine. (a) A locomotive running over a railway without regard to schedule time. (6) A locomotive which by some accident or derangement has escaped from the control of its driver. Wild fig. See fig 2. - Wild flag. See Pater sonia. - Wild fowl. See wild - fowl. Wild ginger. See gingerl. - Wild goat, any species of the genus Capra, in a broad sense, which has not been domesticated, as the ibex, etc.; specifically, the wild original of the domestic goat, C. ægagrus (see ægagrus, with cut). Several differ ent Hebrew words rendered alike 'wild goat' in the Bible in different places are believed with good reason to mean any one of the ibexes, steinbocks, or bouquet ins of Syria, Palestine, Arabia, and parts of Egypt-as, for example, the beden or jaal-goat, technically C. jaala or jaela, and as inhabiting Mount Sinai named C. sinaitica by Hemp The vasty wilds Of wide Arabia. Shak ., M. of V., ii. 7. 41. One Destiny our Life shall guide; Nor Wild nor Deep our common Way divide. Prior , Henry and Emma. We can now tread the regions of fancy without interruption, and expatiate in fairy wilds. Goldsmith , Criticisms. He would linger long In lonesome vales, making the wild his home. Shelley, Alastor. 2. pl . Wild animals; game. In mare is and in mores, in myres and in wateres, Dompynges dyueden [dived]; "deere God," ich sayde, "Wher hadden these wilde suche witt and at what scole?" Piers Plowman (C), xiv. 169. At wildt, crazy; distracted. Trust hym never the more for the bylle that I sent yow by hym, but as a man at wylde , for every thyng that he told me is not trewe. Paston Letters , III. 179.