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Wild [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Roving; wandering; inhabiting the forest or open field; hence, not tamed or domesticated; as a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.

2. Growing without culture; as wild parsnep; wild cherry; wild tansy. wild rice, a palatable and nutritious food, grows spontaneously in the lakes and ponds of the North West territory.

3. Desert; not inhabited; as a wild forest.

4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; as the wild natives of Africa or America.

5. Turbulent; tempestuous; irregular; as a wild tumult.

6. The wild winds howl.

7. Licentious; ungoverned; as wild passions.

8. Valor grown wild by pride--

9. Inconstant; mutable; fickle.

10. In the ruling passion, there also the wild are constant, and the cunning known.

11. Inordinate; loose.

12. A fop well dressd, extravagant and wild

13. Uncouth; loose.

14. --What are these, so witherd, and so wild in their attire?

15. Irregular; disorderly; done without plan or order; as, to make wild work.

16. Not well digested; not framed according to the ordinary rules of reason; not being within the limits of probable practicability; imaginary; fanciful; as a wild project or scheme; wild speculations.

17. Exposed to the wind and sea; as a wild roadstead.

18. Made or found in the forest; as wild honey.

19. WILD is prefixed to the names of many plants, to distinguish them from such of the name as are cultivated in gardens, as wild basil, wild parsnep, wild carrot, wild olive, _.

Wild [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or sandy desert; as the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa; the sandy wilds of Arabia.

2. Then Libya first, of all her moisture draind, became a barren waste, a wild of sand.

Wild [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wildly; as, to talk wild.

Wild [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.

Wild [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.

2. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.

3. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.

4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.

5. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.

6. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.

7. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.

8. Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.

Wild-cat [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

2. Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.

Wild-fowl [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fowls of the forest, or untamed.

Wild-goose [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the Anas anser, a fowl of passage. These geese fly to the south in autumn, and return to the north in the spring. This species is the stock of the common domestic goose. The wild goose of North America, also migratory, is a distinct species, the Anas canadensis.

2. WILD-GOOSE chase, the pursuit of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose.

Wild-honey [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Honey that is found int he forest, in hollow trees or among rocks.

Wild-land [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation.

2. In America, forest; land not settled and cultivated.

Wild-service [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant. The wilder myrtle-leaved service is a tree of the genus Crataegus, [C. Torminalis.)

Wildbad Encyclopedia Britannica

WILDBAD, a watering-place in the north-west of Würtemberg, is picturesquely situated in the romantic pineclad gorge of the Enz, 28 miles west of Stuttgart and 14 east of Baden-Baden. Its thermal alkaline springs have a temperature of 90°-100° Fahr., and are used for bathing in cases of rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, and similar ailments (see Mineral Waters, vol. xvi. p. 433). The fact that the springs rise within the baths, and are thus used at the fountain-head, is considered to contribute materially to their curative influence. The system of bathing in common is customary at Wildbad, although of course separate baths may be obtained. The water is applied internally for affections of the stomach and digestive organs, and of the kidneys, bladder, &c. Wildbad possesses all the usual arrangements for the comfort and amusement of the visiters (over 6000 annually), including large and well-appointed hotels, a curhaus, a trink-halle, and promenades. The neighbourhood is picturesque, the most attractive spot being the Wildsee, of which many legends are told. The population of the town in 1885 was 3514.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 565
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Wildebeest [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The gnu.

Wilded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Become wild.

Wilder [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lose or cause to lose the way or track; to puzzle with mazes or difficulties; to bewilder.

2. Long lost and wilderd in the maze of fate.

Wilder [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bewilder; to perplex.

Wildered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lost in a pathless tract; puzzled.

Wildered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Wilder

Wildering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Puzzling.

Wildering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.

Wildering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Wilder

Wilderment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.

Wilderness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A desert; a tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide barren plain. In the United States, it is applied only to a forest. In Scripture, it is applied frequently to the deserts of Arabia. The Israelites wandered int he wilderness forty years.

2. The ocean.

3. The watry wilderness yields no supply.

4. A state of disorder. [Not in use.]

5. A wood in a garden, resembling a forest.

Wilderness [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A disorderly or neglected place.

3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness.

Wildfire [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A composition of inflammable materials.

2. Brimstone, pitch, wildfire burn easily, and are hard to quench.

3. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin; a kind of erysipelas.

Wildfire [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.

2. An old name for erysipelas.

3. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

4. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.

Wildgrave [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave.

Wilding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A wild sour apple.

Wilding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.

Wilding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.

Wildish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Somewhat wild; rather wild.

Wildly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Without cultivation.

2. Without tameness.

3. With disorder; with perturbation or distraction; with a fierce or roving look; as, to start wildly from ones seat; to stare wildly

4. Without attention; heedlessly.

5. Capriciously; irrationally; extravagantly.

6. Who is there so wildly skeptical as to question whether the sun will rise in the east?

7. Irregularly.

8. She, wildly wanton, wears by night away the sign of all our labors done by day.

Wildly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.

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360 KJV and 301 BSB verses contain “wild” — showing the first 20. Show all 411 verses (searchable)

Genesis 7:14

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Genesis 14:6

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

Genesis 16:7

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

Genesis 16:12

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Genesis 21:14

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:20

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

Genesis 21:21

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 25:28

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 31:39

That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

Genesis 36:24

And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)

Genesis 37:22

And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 3:18

And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

Exodus 4:27

And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Exodus 5:1

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

Exodus 5:3

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

Exodus 7:16

And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.

Exodus 8:27

We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”

Exodus 8:28

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

Exodus 13:18

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.