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wildling|ˈwaɪldlɪŋ|
[f. wild a. + -ling1 1. Cf. Du. wildeling, G. wildling.]
1. A wild plant or flower: = wilding A. 2.
1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. I. 345 The turmeric, hena,..considered too valuable..to remain a wildling. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 153 His dried garden of wildlings. 1907Daily Chron. 10 July 3/3 Notes as to the growing of woodland and hedgerow ‘wildlings’ in a garden.
2. A wild creature or animal: = wilding A. 3.
1841S. Bamford Passages in Life of Radical I. xi. 72 All said he was killed... The doctor..approached along an avenue made through those wildlings. 1884St. James's Gaz. 4 Apr. 6/1, I am one of her [sc. nature's] ‘wildlings’. [Cf. wilding A. 2, quot. 1826.] 1907J. H. Crawford From Fox's Earth i. 13 The wildling of the breezy heights is quite as interesting as the wildling of the cool water. |