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Show WI WI A wight he was, whofe very fight weul $ntitle him mirror of knighthood 8. Inordinate ; loofe Hudibras The water flies all tafte of living wight Other bars he lays before me My riots paft, my wild focieties Shakefpear: Befides, thou arta beau; what "¢that my child Milton How couldit thou fufter thy devoted knight Ou thy own day, to fall by foe opprefs'd A fop well dreft, extravagant; and 2vild She that cries herbs has lefs impertinence The wight of all the world who lov'd thee beft Dryden And in her calling more of common fenfe. Dryd His ftation he yielded up to a wwight as difagree 9. Uncouth ; ftrange Addifon's Guardian able as himfelf What are thefe So wither'd, and fo wild in their attire That look not like th' inhabitants o' th earth And yet are on 't Shakefpeare's Macbeth In fame's full bloom lies Florio down at night And wakes next day a moft inglorious zvight Young The tulip 's dead WicHT. adj. Swift; nimble Out of ufe 10. Done or made without any confiften order or plan He was fo wimble and fo awight From bough to bough he leaped light With mountain mak And oft the pumies latched. Spenfer's Pafforals an initial in the names of men WicHT 11. Merely imaginary As univerfal as thefe appear to be, an effeGua remedy might be applied : I am not at prefen Her was her, while it was day-light wight upon a zwild {peculative projet, but fuch a one a may be eafily put in execution Swift For day that was is wightly patt And now at laft the night doth hatt Spenfer WiLp. #. / [from the adjective. A defert ; a tra& uncultivated and uninhabited MVILD. adj. [pild, Saxon; wild, Dutch. 1. Not tame ; not domeftick ForI am he, and born to tame you, Kate And bring you from a awild cat to a kate Conformable as other houfehold kates. ~ Shakefp Whereas the fcorching fk Doth finge the fandy wilds of fpiceful Barbary Drayton Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geefe fly tha We fometimes Shakefpeare way Milton All beafts of the earth fince wild Wh Whatfoever will make a qvild tree a garden tree Goofe grafs or wild tanfy is a weed that ftron clays are very fubject to. Mortimer's Hufbandry Became a barren wafte, a wild of fand .Addifon Is there a nation in the cilds of Afric Amidft the barren rocks and burning fands That does not tremble at the Roman name Addifon 3. Defert ; uninhabited Yo rais' thef hallow' walls ; th defar {mil'd The wild beaft where he wons in foreft wi/d And paradife was open'd in the wild Milton Pope Wrvp Bafil. n. [ [acinas, Lat.]" A plant Miller WiLp Cucumber. n. [f. [elaterium, Latin. A plant uncivilized: ufed of perfons or pradtices Affairs that walk As they fay fpirits do, at midnight, hav In them a uilder nature than the bufinef ‘That feeks difpatch by day. Shakelp. Henry VIII Th branche cucumber Though the inundation deftroyed man and beaf bu ar hav fomewha n like thofe of th tendrils the frui i prickly, and when ripe burfts with great elafticity generally, yet fome few wild inhabitants of th Bacon woods efcaped and abounds with fetid juice Miller WiLp Olive, n. [. [eleagnus, Latin ; fro Thi iAata, oliva, and &y, witex. When they might not converfe with any clvi men without peril of their lives, whither thoul plant hath leaves like thofe of the chaft Miller tree, and a fruit like an olive they fly but into the woods and mountains, an there live in a wi/d and barbarous manner Dawies on Ireland May thofe already curft Effexian plains ‘Where hafty death and pining ficknefs reigns 7o Wiy'LDER. w. a. [from awild.] 'T lofe or puzzle in an unknown or pathlefs tract Prove as a defart, and none there make fta The little courtiers, who ne'er come to kno The depth of faétions, as in mazes go Where interefts meet, and crofs fo oft, that the But favage beafts, or men as wild as they. Waller 5. Turbulent ; tempeftuous ; irregular His paflions and his virtues lie confus'd And mixt together in fo wi/d a tumult With too much care are wilder'd in the way Dryden That the whole man is quite disfigur'd in him Addifom O thou ! who free't me from my doubtful ftate Long loft and wilder'd in the maze of fate Pope Be prefent ftill 6. Licentious; ungoverned The barbarous diffonanc W1'LDERNESS. 7. /o [from awild. 1. A defert; a tra& of folitude and fa vagenefs Of that wi/d rout that torc the Thracian bard Milton Valour grown wild by pride, and pow'r by rage Did the true charms of majefty impair Rome by degrees advancing more in age He tcavell'd through wide wafteful ground That nought but defart wildernefs frew'd allaround Spenfer Show'd fad remains of what had once been fair 7 Inconftant; mutable ; fickle conftrain'd by want com Dryden Then Lybia firft, of all her moifture drain'd The wild bee breeds in the ftocks of old willows, in which they firft bore a canal, and furnit afterwards with hangings, made of rofe leaves and, to finith their work, divide the whole into fcGrew's Mufzum veral rooms or nefts this wild Forfook his eafy couch at early day And to the woods and wi/ds purfued his way will make a garden tree to have lefs core or ftone Bacon's Natural Hiftory 4. Savage dwel fort To town or village nigh. Milton's Par. Regained This gentle knigh 2. Propagated by nature; not cultivated as with weapons arm'd, the Wild work in heav'n Milton's Paradife Loff _ The fea was very necefary to the ends of providence, and it wouid have been a very 2wild worl had it been without Wosdward's Nat. Hiftory fignifies ftrong ; nimble ; lufty: bein Gibfow's Camden purely Saxon Wi'GHTLY. adv. [from awight.] SwiftOblolete ly ; nimbly But now her is a mo#t wretche WI When as the land fhe faw no more appear But a wild wildernefs of waters deep Prior S/z'eqf weep an lamen t greatl th ga The blow civi wit fic kingdom poo O m In the ruling paffion, there alone The wild are confant, and the cunning known Fope s o r t l h t w n w c r c m When tha What wilt thou do when riot is thy care 0, thou wilt be a wildernefs again Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants! Shak. But wh The wat'r All thof their wood can always on the billows lie Waller wildernefs yields no fupply animals have been obliged to chang and ailderneffes for lodgings in cities Arbutbnot and Pope 2, The ftate of being wild or diforderly Not in ufe The paths and bow'rs doubt not but our join hand Will keep from wildernefs with eafe Miltor Wi'Lorire, # /. [wild and fire.] compofition of inflammable materials eafy to take fire, and hard to be extin guifhed When thou rann'ft up Gadfhill in the night t catc m horfe, I did thin tho hadft been a ignis fatuus, or a ball of zvildfire Shakefpeare Though brimftone, pitch, wildfire, burn eafily and are hard to quench, yet they make no fuch fiery wind as gunpowder. Bacon's Natural HifforYet fhallit in his boiling ftomach tur To bitter poifon, and like vi/dfire burn He fhall caft up the wealth by him devour'd Sandys No matter in the world {o proper to write wit as awildfire, as no charalers can be more legible than thofe which are read by their own light Addifon's Guardiat. In flames, like Semele's, be brought to bed ‘While opening hell fpouts wildfire at your head Pope WiLpcoosEcHA'sE. 7z [ A purfuit o fomething as unlikely to be caught a the wildgoofe If our wits run the wildgosfechace, 1 have done for thou haft more of the wildgoofe in one of th wits, than 1 have in my whole five Shakefpeare. Let a man confider the time, money, and vexa tion, that this wildgoofechace has coft him, an then fay, what have I gotten to anfwer all thi expence, but giddy fyolick L'Efirange Wi'vpine. n. [ [wildelinghe, Dutch.] wild four apple Ten ruddy wwildings in the wood I found, And ftood on tip-toes, reaching from the ground. Dryden The redftreak, of all cyder fruit, hath obtaine the preference, being but a kind'of wi/ding, neve pleafing to the palate Mortimer The wi/ding's fibres are contriv' To draw th' earth's pureft fpirit, and refif Its feculence Wi'LpLy Pbilips adv [from awild. 1. Without cultivation That which grows aildly of itfelf, is-worth nothing Mire 2. Without tamenefs; with ferity 3. With diforder; with perturbatio diftra&tion Put your difcourf into fome frame not fo wildly from my affair o and ftar Shakefpeare Mrs. Page, at the door, {weating, blowing, an looking wwildly, would needs {peak with you Shakefpeare Young mothers wildly ftare, with fear oppreft, And firain their helplefs infants to their breaft Drydens His fever being come to a‘height, he grew delirious, and talked very wildly Female Quixote, 4. Without attention ; without judgment ; heedlefsly As th' unthought accident is guilt Of what we wi/dly do, fo we profef Ourfelves to be the flaves of chance, and flie Of every wind that blows. Shake[peary 5. Capricioufly; irrationally, Who is there fo wildly fceptical as to queftio whether the fun fhall xifc in the eak Wilkias 6. Irregularly |