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., […], →OCLC, page 17:
Wilding
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Philately Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.
wilding
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Etymology From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
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A wild apple or apple tree.
These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.2023, Ray Mears, chapter 1, in British Woodland, Ebury Spotlight, →ISBN:
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Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
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, →OCLC:
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, […], →OCLC:
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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, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]:
wilding
noun
Etymology From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
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Criminology, Human sciences, Law, Sciences, Social science, SociologyUS A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.