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Wilding

noun

A wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree).

An outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women.

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"Wilding" Quotes from Famous Books

... joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums ...

— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... art and a science. The game as played by such men as Norman E. Brookes, the late Anthony Wilding, William M. Johnston, and R. N. Williams is art. Yet like all true art, it has its basis in scientific methods that must be learned and learned thoroughly for a foundation before the artistic structure of a great tennis game can ...

— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D

... ones, put by your care! Where wants are many, joys are few; And at the wilding springs of peace, God keeps an open ...

— Songs from Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

... univied nakedness of all ruins in our climate, which has no clinging evergreens wherewith to pity and soften the forlornness of decay. Out of the rubbish at the foot of the walls there sprang a wilding growth of syringas and lilacs; and the interior was choked with flourishing weeds, and with the briers of the raspberry, on which a few berries hung. The heavy beams, left where they fell a hundred years ago, ...

— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells

... shillings a week for reviews of translations "without knowing one syllable of the original," and of "books which he had never read." He then turned French valet, and got well paid. He then fell into the service of Jack Wilding, and was valet, French marquis, or anything else to suit the whims of that young scapegrace.—S. Foote, ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer

Words linked to "Wilding" : rampage, flora, wildflower, violent disorder, plant, plant life, wild flower