wilding

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wild=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

wilding, n. 

 A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
"Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found."  [1913 Webster]
"The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding."  [1913 Webster]

wilding, a. 

 Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.  Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]
"The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den,
And the wilding bee hums merrily by."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wilding, n. (also wildling)
1 a plant sown by natural agency, esp. a wild crab-apple.
2 the fruit of such a plant.

Etymology

WILD + -ING(3)

ROGET THESAURUS

wilding

Exclusion

N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.