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Wild v. World English Historical Dictionary

Wild v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wild v. rare. [f. WILD a. Cf. AWILDEN (OE. áwildian), MHG. wilden.]

1   1.  intr. Of an animal or plant: To be or become wild; to run wild, grow wild.

2 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 136. Vet kelf & to wilde is þet fleschs þet awiligeð [MS. T. wildes] so sone hit euer uetteð.

3 1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, I. iii. (Skeat), l. 45. Heerdes gonne to wilde.

4 1880.  Earle, Engl. Plant Names, 86. This is held by botanists to be an old garden-plant escaped and wilded.

5   2.  trans. To make wild, in various senses; † esp. to affect with frenzy, to madden (obs.).

6 1421.  Hoccleve, Compl., 235. This grevous venyme that had enfectyd and wildyd my brayne.

7 1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] xxii. 71. The Mad worme hath wilded all Humanitie.

8 1655.  Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. Misery, 81. Thus wilded by a peevish heart … I storm at thee.

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