wildfowl (wildfoul)

[ IMG:content-2383.png:[blocks in formation] Take heed, sir; be not madder than you would make him: Though he be rash and sudden (which is all his wildne ), Take heed you wrong him not. Fletcher, Pilgrim, v. 5. 21. A wild place or country; a wilderne . Thise tyraunts put hem gladly not in pres, No wildne e ne no bu hes for to winne. Chaucer, Former Age, 1. 34. Wild's case. See casel. wild-williams (wild-wil'yamz), n. An old name of the ragged-robin, Lychnis Flos-cuculi. wild-windt (wild'wind), n. A hurricane. In the year of our Lord 1639, in November, here happened an hirecano or wild - wind . Fuller , Worthies, I. 495. wild-wood (wild'wud), n. and a. I. n. The wild, unfrequented woods; a forest. The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild -wood. S. Wood worth, The Old Oaken Bucket. II. a . Belonging to wild, uncultivated, or unfrequented woods. [Poetical.] Aye the wild - wood echoes rang- Oh, dearly do I love thee, Annie! Burns, By Allan Stream.