wilding

noun

1. A wild apple or apple tree.

   “These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.”

2. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.

   “Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]”

   “Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.”

   “The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.”

3. (US, countable, uncountable)A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.
4. Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of wild

   “Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, poetic)Not cultivated or tame; wild.

   “The wilding bee hums merrily by.”

   “And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]”

name

1. A surname.