Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
wilding .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.
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- noun botany A
plant growing in a state ofnature , especially one that has run wild or escaped fromcultivation .
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Examples
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Troy once more at last spend the live-long day in drinking toasts and singing love's praise, while the wildering wine-cup sends a friendly challenge round, as o'er the sea for Sparta bound, the sons of Atreus quit the Ilian strand?
Rhesus 2008
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Troy once more at last spend the live-long day in drinking toasts and singing love's praise, while the wildering wine-cup sends a friendly challenge round, as o'er the sea for Sparta bound, the sons of Atreus quit the Ilian strand?
Rhesus 2008
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The time of lying together will come and the wildering of the nicht till cockeedoodle aubens Aurore.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The dubious and wildering track struck out by those innovators and visionaries who absurdly endeavor to teach modern English, by rejecting the authority and sanction of custom, and by conducting the learner back to the original combinations, and the detached, disjointed, and barbarous constructions of our progenitors, both prudence and reason, as well as a due regard for correct philology, impel me to shun.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Through wildering labyrinths that round them close,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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They could not weep and pray the long night through, as did the saintly Anselm, for their eyes were fastened upon the wildering lustre of the thronging stars as they wove their magic rings through the dim abysses of distant space, yet the incense of constant praise rose from their happy souls to the
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Began he still his 'wildering shriek --' Lenore! '
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The epithets are well chosen; but the usual wildering sensuousness of Tennyson's glowing imagery is subdued and tender throughout the progress of this melancholy tale.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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We tried to maintain a south-easterly course for the coast, but miles were wasted in the tortuous maze of ice -- "a wildering Theban ruin of hummock and serrac."
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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That whirls the wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.
The Visionary 1917
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