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- English Word Wild Definition Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
- English Word Wild Definition Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
- English Word Wild Definition Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
- English Word Wild Definition An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
- English Word Wild Definition Wildly; as, to talk wild.
- English Word Wild-cat Definition Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
- English Word Wild-cat Definition Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
- English Word Wildebeest Definition The gnu.
- English Word Wilded Definition Become wild.
- English Word Wilder Definition To bewilder; to perplex.
- English Word Wildered Definition of Wilder
- English Word Wildering Definition of Wilder
- English Word Wildering Definition A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.
- English Word Wilderment Definition The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.
- English Word Wilderness Definition A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
- English Word Wilderness Definition A disorderly or neglected place.
- English Word Wilderness Definition Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
- English Word Wildfire Definition A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
- English Word Wildfire Definition An old name for erysipelas.
- English Word Wildfire Definition A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.
- English Word Wildfire Definition A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.
- English Word Wildgrave Definition A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave.
- English Word Wilding Definition A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.
- English Word Wilding Definition Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.
- English Word Wildish Definition Somewhat wild; rather wild.
- English Word Wildly Definition In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.
- English Word Wildness Definition The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
- English Word Wildwood Definition A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.
- English Word Wile Definition A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
- English Word Wile Definition To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.