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Wilding : (noun)
1: a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or
crab-apple tree)
2: an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by
men on women
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Wilding : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Wilding : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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