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Wilding: Definition and part of speech

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Wilding

  1. a. Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.
  2. n. A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wildness: Definition and part of speech

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Wildness

  1. n. The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wilderness: Definition and part of speech

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Wilderness

  1. v. t. Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. t. A disorderly or neglected place.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wildfire: Definition and part of speech

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Wildfire

  1. n. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.
  2. n. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
  3. n. An old name for erysipelas.
  4. n. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.