wild(1) (iou) and megaron (iou)

wild(1) (iou)

wild adjective, noun, & adverb.
[Old English wilde = Old Frisian wilde, Old Saxon, Old High German wildi (Dutch, German wild), Old Norse villr, Gothic wilTeis, from Germanic.]
A. adjective.
I.
Of an animal: living in, or having reverted to, a natural state; not living with or under the control of humans, not tame or domesticated. OE.
R. Macaulay Wild creatures..scuttered out among the bushes.
Of a plant: growing in a natural state; growing freely without human intervention; not cultivated. Freq. in the names of uncultivated plants related to or resembling cultivated plants. OE.
wild carrot, wild grape, wild olive, wild plum, wild sage, etc.
I. Murdoch She picked..wild flowers in the grass near the lake.
Of a place or region: left uncultivated; free of human intervention or habitation; desolate. OE.
Country Living Wild moorlands, blue with lochs.
b. Belonging to or characteristic of a desolate region; of or in a wilderness. L17.
a. Produced or deriving from wild animals or plants; produced without domestication or cultivation. ME.
Scotsman I had my first experience of 'wild' meat..in Tanzania. Zebra steak was the main dish.
b. Mining. Of a mineral or ore: impure, inferior. L18.
Of a person etc.: uncivilized; barbarous. Also, rebellious. ME.
Sir W. Scott It's ill taking the breeks aff a wild Highlandman.
II.
Uncontrolled, unrestrained; taking or disposed to take one's own way; acting or moving unrestrictedly. OE.
Dickens The children wild in the streets. A. Sillitoe He woke himself..by a wild clawing at his clothes.
b. Resisting control or restraint, wilful, unruly, wayward; disorderly; reckless, careless. Also, irregular, erratic. ME.
F. Marryat An only son, very wild, who would go to sea in spite of his remonstrances. Sounds With pierced nose, wild red hair and..tattoos.
c. Yielding to sexual desire; licentious; dissolute. ME.
Guardian We started to crack up..having a real wild time, taking drugs, drinking.
d. Of game, a horse, etc.: shy; fearful of humans; easily startled. L16.
P. Hawker The birds were so..wild that it was almost impossible to get near them.
Not having control of one's mental faculties; distracted, distraught; (of the eyes) indicating distraction. ME.
M. Robinson I am really almost wild with affliction! L. Thomas Tremulous, hallucinating, wild-eyed, unhinged men.
Fierce, savage, ferocious; violent; cruel. ME.
Shakespeare King John This is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery.
b. Of the sea, the weather, etc.: violently agitated, rough, stormy; fig. tumultuous, turbulent. ME.
Dickens A bad winter's night in the wild Atlantic.
c. Of a vocal or instrumental sound: loud and unrestrained. M16.
J. McGahern They exploded into wild laughter.
Of an action, notion, statement, etc.: going beyond the bounds of what is prudent or reasonable; rash; fantastically or absurdly unreasonable. Freq. in in one's wildest dreams, beyond one's wildest dreams, in or beyond one's most fantastic or unrestrained imaginings or expectations. E16.
A. C. Clarke The envious rumour..was wild hyperbole. Harpers & Queen Cosmetics companies making wild claims for their products.
b. Of or designating the extreme Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland. L18-E19.
Of an emotion or its expression: highly excited or agitated; frantic; passionately vehement. L16.
Sara Maitland She heard..wild terrified screaming.
a. Strange or fantastic in appearance. E17.
b. Artless, free, fanciful, or romantic in style; pleasingly unconventional or primitive. M17.
Milton If..sweetest Shakespear fancies childe, Warble his native Wood-notes wilde. Flowers If you want the decorated pot to appear wild, choose weeping willow.
c. A General term of approval: amazing, wonderful, exciting. US slang. M20.
G. Paley This dress is wild It must've cost a dime.
colloq.
a. Extremely irritated; angry, infuriated. M17.
J. K. Jerome It made me awfully wild, especially as George burst out laughing.
b. Passionately desirous or anxious to do something; extremely attracted to or infatuated with a person (foll. by about, for). L18.
J. McGahern After a week in the house..you're..wild to get out.
c. Overwhelmed or carried away by enthusiasm. Freq. foll. by about, for. E19.
New York Woman Beware the black catsuit...Designers are..wild for these body-hugging numbers.
a. Aimed wide of the mark or at random; haphazard. E19.
Guardian A wild tee shot..missed the green by 20 yards.
b. Of a playing-card: having any rank chosen by the player holding it. E20.
b. noun.
A wild animal; wild animals collectively; spec. an animal or animals of the chase; game. ME-L16.
A wild or desolate place; an uncultivated or uninhabited region; a wilderness; in pl., the wild parts of a particular region. L16.
Daily Telegraph Summer adventure camps in the wilds of Wester Ross.
C. adverb. In a wild manner; wildly; randomly. M16.
G. P. R. James The soldier who fronted him, struck wild, reeled, staggered.
Phrases: beyond one's wildest dreams, in one's wildest dreams: see sense A.9 above. in the wild in an untamed, undomesticated, or uncultivated state. in the wilds, out in the wilds colloq. far from normal habitation; remote from urban life and culture; on the furthest limits or boundaries. like wild colloq. with passionate enthusiasm or great excitement. play the wild US colloq. behave in a careless or reckless manner; play havoc with. run wild: see RUN verb. sow one's wild oats: see OAT noun. the wild the state of being untamed, undomesticated, or uncultivated.
Special collocations & comb.: wild angelica: see ANGELICA noun1 1. wild ARUM. wild basil: see BASIL noun1 2. wild beast an undomesticated or ferocious animal (lit. & fig.). wild bergamot: see BERGAMOT noun2 3. wild boar: see BOAR 1b. wild card (a) see sense 13b above; (b) Sport a player or team chosen to enter a competition at the organizers' discretion after the regular places have been taken up; (c) Computing a character that will match any character or combination of characters in a search etc. wild cattle (a) undomesticated or feral cattle; (b) (animals of) any of various species of wild bovid. wild CELERY. wild cherry a tall Eurasian woodland tree, Prunus avium, bearing white flowers in spring, the ancestor of cultivated sweet cherries; also called gean. wild chestnut the Cape chestnut, Calodendrum capense. wild cinnamon: see CINNAMON noun. wildcraft verb & noun (US) (a) verb trans. gather (herbs, fungi, etc.) from the wild; (b) noun the action or practice of wildcrafting natural produce. wild dog any of various wild members of the dog family; esp. (a) the hunting dog of Africa; (b) the dhole of India; (c) the dingo of Australia. wild duck any of numerous undomesticated ducks; spec. the mallard. wild endive: see ENDIVE 2. wild Garden a group of hardy plants planted in an informal setting and intended to appear to be growing without human intervention. wild Gardening the practice or activity of growing a wild Garden. wild GARLIC. wild ginger N. Amer. a kind of birthwort, Asarum canadense, with a rootstock tasting of ginger. wild goat any wild species of goat, as the ibex; any goat-antelope, as the chamois. wild horse (a) a horse not domesticated or broken in, a feral horse; (b) = PRZEWALSKI's horse; (c) in pl. (colloq.) even the strongest inducement or most powerful influence (chiefly in neg. contexts). wild HYACINTH. wild Irish: see IRISH noun 1. wild IRISHMAN. wild leek (a) a southern European plant, Allium ampeloprasum, from which the leek is thought to be derived; (b) ramsons, Allium ursinum; (c) N. Amer. ramp, Allium tricoccum. wild liquorice: see LIQUORICE 3. wild mare: see MARE noun1 3. wild MARJORAM. wild mignonette: see MIGNONETTE 2. wild mustard charlock, Sinapis arvensis. wild NAVEW. wild oat: see OAT noun 2. wild oats: see OAT noun. wild orange (a) the wild form of the cultivated orange, Citrus sinensis, or a closely related plant; (b) any of various trees resembling this in fruit, flowers, or foliage, esp. the Kaffir orange, Strychnos pungens, and a N. American cherry-laurel, Prunus caroliniana. wild pansy: see PANSY noun 1. wild parsley colloq. any of several fine-leaved umbelliferous plants. wild parsnip (a) a Eurasian plant of calcareous grassland, Pastinaca sativa, from which the cultivated parsnip is derived; (b) N. Amer. a kind of cowbane, Cicuta maculata. wild pig a wild boar. wild pine: see PINE noun2 5. wild pitch noun & verb (Baseball) (a) noun a pitch which is not hit by the batter and cannot be stopped by the catcher, enabling a base-runner to advance; (b) verb trans. enable (a base-runner) to advance in this way. wild radish a cornfield weed, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. raphanistrum, allied to the cultivated radish. wild rape: see RAPE noun3 3. wild rice: see RICE noun2 2. wild rye (a) any of several European kinds of wild barley, esp. Hordeum secalinum and H. murinum; (b) N. Amer. any of several grasses of the genus Elymus. wild sarsaparilla: see SARSAPARILLA 2. wildscape a wild, uncultivated, or desolate landscape; an area of land free from human intervention. wild service (tree): see SERVICE noun2 1b. wild silk silk produced by wild silkworms; an imitation of this made from short silk fibres. wild snapdragon: see SNAPDRAGON 1. wild strawberry: see STRAWBERRY 2. wild talent any of various psychic powers such as extrasensory perception, telepathy, telekinesis, etc. wild tansy: see TANSY 1b. wild teasel: see TEASEL noun 1. wild THYME. wild tobacco: see TOBACCO 2. wild turkey the wild bird from which the domesticated turkey is derived. wild type Genetics the type of strain, gene, or characteristic that prevails among individuals in natural conditions, as opp. to an atypical mutant type. wild-type adjective (Genetics) of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of a wild type. wild valerian: see VALERIAN 1. wild vine: see VINE noun 2. wild well an oil well which is out of control and blowing oil or gas from the borehole. wild woad: see WOAD noun 2.
wildish adjective somewhat wild; inclining to wildness: E18.
wildling noun a wilding; a wild plant, flower, or animal: M19.
wildness noun (a) the quality or condition of being wild; (b) (now rare or obsolete) a wild place, a wilderness: LME.

megaron (iou)

megaron noun. L19.
[Greek.]
In ancient Greece, the great central hall of a type of house characteristic esp. of the Mycenaean period.

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