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wildwood|ˈwaɪldwʊd|
[Orig. two words, wild a. 4 and wood n.]
A forest of natural growth, or allowed to grow naturally; an uncultivated or unfrequented wood. (In later use chiefly poet.)
a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud. MS.) an. 963 Syððon com se biscop Aðelwold to þære mynstre þe wæs ᵹehaten Medeshamstede..ne fand þær nan þing buton ealde weallas & wilde wuda. c1205Lay. 25905 Þer þe eotend unc ifeng forð mid him seoluen fiftene mile into þisse wilde wude. 1382Wyclif Isa x. 18 The glorie of his wilde wode. ― Zech. xi. 2 Ȝoule, ȝe ookis of Basan, for the stronge wijlde wod is kitt doun. 1814Scott Mass. of Glencoe ii, Those for whom I pour the lay, Not wild-wood deep, nor mountain grey..Could screen from treach'rous cruelty. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 102 Whether in garden or wild⁓wood. 1884Ruskin in Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Dec. 11/2 Such a piece of mountain wildwood.
attrib.a1568in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 291/73 Ane heklit hud maid of the wyld wode sege. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 390 When With wild wood-leaues & weeds, I ha' strew'd his graue. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad 40 The turf his bed, the wild-wood boughs his shade. 1794S. T. Coleridge in J. D. Campbell Life ii. (1894) 34, I had been wandering among the wildwood scenery and terrible graces of the Welsh mountains. 1814Wordsw. Yarrow Visited 66 How sweet, on this autumnal day, The wild-wood fruits to gather. 1856Whittier Mayflowers ii, The wild-wood flowers. |