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wilding
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wilding \Wild"ing\, n. (Bot.)
A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree
or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. --Spenser.
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Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. --Dryden.
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The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice,
and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
--Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wilding \Wild"ing\, a.
Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic]
"Wilding flowers." --Tennyson.
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The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den,
And the wilding bee hums merrily by. --Bryant.
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