Being in a state of ebullition. Thus steel, solidifying in a mold, which is evolving gases, is said to be wild.
noun.
An obsolete variant of Weald, perhaps due to confusion with wild.
Self-willed; wayward; wanton; impatient of restraint or control; stirring; lively; boisterous; full of life and spirits; hence, frolicsome; giddy; light-hearted.
Boisterous: tempestuous; stormy; violent; turbulent; furious; uncontrolled: used in both a physical and a moral sense.
Bold; brave; daring; wight.
Loose and disorderly in conduct; given to going beyond bounds in pleasurable indulgence; ungoverned; more or less dissolute, wayward, or unrestrained in conduct; prodigal.
Reckless; rash; ill-considered; extravagant; out of accord with reason or prudence; haphazard: as, a wild venture; wild trading.
Extravagant; fantastic; irregular; disordered; weird; queer.
Enthusiastic; eager; keen; especially, very eager with delight, excitement, or the like.
Excited; roused; distracted; crazy; betokening or indicating excitement or strong emotion.
Wide of the mark or direct line, standard, or bounds.
Living in a state of nature; inhabiting the forest or open field; roving: wandering; not tame; not domesticated; feral or ferine: as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.
Noting beasts of the chase, game-birds, and the like, which are noticeably shy, wary, or hard to take under certain circumstances: opposed to tame, 1 : as, the birds are wild this morning.
Savage; uncivilized; ungoverned; unrefined; ferocious; sanguinary: noting persons or practices.
Growing or produced without culture; produced by unassisted nature, or by wild animals; native; not cultivated: as, wild parsnip; wild cherry; wild honey.
Desert; not inhabited; uncultivated.
To escape from domestication and revert to the feral state.
To escape from cultivation and grow in a wild state.
See Ipomæa.
A locomotive which by some accident or derangement has escaped from the control of its driver.
A seesaw.
The West Indian euphorbiaeeous tree Drypetes glauca.
Gærtnera vaginata, of Réunion, without ground reported as a fit substitute for coffee: often misnamed mussænda.
In the West Indies, a plant of the genus Tillandsia, especially T. utriculata.
Synonyms and Rude, impetuous, irregular, unrestrained, harebrained, frantic, frenzied, crazed, fanciful, visionary, strange, grotesque.
noun.
A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a waste.
noun.
plural Wild animals; game.