Definition of "wilding"

wilding¹

noun
plural wildings
1. A wild apple or apple tree.
2. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
  Quotations
  Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
  1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 1”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
  1824–1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]

wilding²

verb
1. present participle and gerund of wild
  Quotations
  Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.
  2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 804
adjective
not comparable
1. (poetic) Not cultivated or tame; wild.
  Quotations
  The wilding bee hums merrily by.
  a. 1844, William Cullen Bryant, The Gladness of Nature
  And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]
  1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], page 17

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