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W I L 



Wild Angelica, Bq/il, Briar, Campion, Carlint Thijlh, 

 Carrot, Chervil, Cijily, Climber, Lettuce, Liquorice, Madder, 

 Marjoram, Melic, Mint, Majlard, Oat, Radijli, Rape, 

 Rocket, Tare, Thyme, and Vine, in Agriculture. See 

 Weed. 



WiLB-Fire, or Erjjipelas, a difeafe in fheep, which afFefts 

 the flcin, and which, if not well attended to, is liable to 

 fpread very quickly among the flock. It is attended with 

 confiderable inflammation in many cafes, though but feldom 

 with bhfters over the body. It commonly takes place 

 towards the latter end of fummer, and does not continue 

 more than eight days at a time, although fuch (heep as are 

 once afFefted with it are very liable to have it again. It 

 was formerly a praftice with fliepherds to bury the fheep 

 that were affefted with this difeafe in the ground at the 

 door of the fold, with their feet upwards, which, they 

 believed, afted as a charm to drive it from the flock. But 

 this folly is now done away with. 



In the cure of this affeftion of the (Icin, recourfe may be 

 had to evacuations from the bowels by the ufe of calomel, 

 or purging-falts, diffolved in warm water, for three or four 

 days ; then fulphur with nitre may be given in pretty full 

 dofes, cooling wafhes being ufed at the fame time. Strength- 

 ening remedies (hould afterwards be employed, fuch as oak, 

 or other barks of the fame nature. During the cure, 

 the (heep fliould be kept from being too much expofed 

 to cold, and in a dry found pafture, being well fed when 

 neceffary. 



WiLD-Fire, Ignis Gregalis, or Grxcus. See IVild-TlRE. 



WlLD-Fire Arrows, luch as were trimmed with wild-fire, 

 and (hot burning, to ftick in the fails or rigging of (hips in 

 a fight. See YlK^-Arrotv. 



VfiLD-Foiul. See fVater-TovFL, and Decoy. 



WiLD-Goofe, Anas Anfer. See DuCK. 



WlLD-Go<j/i Chace. See Chace. 



'WiLO-Honey. See Honey. 



WiLTi-Land, Reclaiming of, in Agriculture. See Re- 

 claiming Lands. 



WiLn-Olive. See 'Elmaguvs. 



Wild Service-Tree, in Agriculture and Gardening, a deci- 

 duous tree of confiderable growth, which is much cultivated 

 in the field and pleafure-ground. It has been obferved, 

 that this tree is fometimes planted in orchard-grounds 

 among fruit-trees, but that it (hould be put in pleafure- 

 grounds, plantations, or on lawns, for its ornamental effeft 

 in the autumnal feafon. 



If trained up with fl^raight clean ftems, fervice-trees 

 will grow to the height of thirty or forty feet ; in that 

 cafe, they (hould be planted among foreft-trees, or in the 

 back parts of large (hrubberies. But thofe who wifh to 

 plant them as flowering flirubs muft head them down when 

 young, to make them throw out horizontal (hoots ; they 

 nay then be planted among the middling-fized (hrubs, 

 which will make a beautiful variety, both when in flower, 

 and when bearing fruit. Thefe trees grow to a con- 

 fiderable fize when properly managed, and are very much 

 ufed by wheelers and others, on account of the wood 

 being all, what they call, heart-wood. 



The fruit has been found excellent for feeding game, and 

 other forts of birds and fowls. 



WILDAU, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Stiria, on the weft fide of the Muehr ; 12 miles S. of 

 Gratz. 



WILDBAD, a town of Wurtembcrg, celebrated for 

 its warm-baths ; 30 miles N.E. of Stra(burg. N. lat. 48° 

 40'. E. long. 8° 26', 



WILDBERG, a town of Wurtemberg, on the Nagold ; 

 3 miles N. of Nagold. N. lat. 48° 33'. E. long. 8° 48'.— 

 Alfo, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Oberland ; 1 2 

 miles S. of Ortelfburg. 



WiLDBERG, or IVildbergen, a town of the Middle Mark 

 of Brandenburg; 28 miles N. of Brandenburg. N. lat. 

 52° 55'. E.long. 12° 38'. 



WILDE, James, in Biography, a Swedi(h liiftorian, 

 was born in Courland in 1679, and educated at Riga ; and 

 having quitted that city in 1695, he fought farther im- 

 provement in feveral German academies, graduating M.A. 

 at Griefswald. At the age of 21, fuch was his proficiency 

 in various branches of literature, he was appointed co-reftor 

 of the cathedral fchool at Riga, and foon after teacher of 

 poUtics, hiilory, and eloquence, in the royal gymnafium of 

 that place. Qualified by his talents and acquirements for a 

 higher rank in the department of inftruftion, he was invited, 

 in 1703, to be profe(ror of hiftory in the academy of Pernau ; 

 but declining this office, he was, in the following year, 

 nominated by Charles XII. to fill the chair of Latin elo- 

 quence and poetry, which he occupied for five years. 

 During his flay at Aix-la-Chapelle, which he vifited in 

 1 709 for the recovery of his health, the Ruffians made an 

 irruption into Livonia, and he loll his library, with all his 

 documents and papers. From hence, inftead of returning 

 to his native country, he proceeded to Stockholm, and 

 offered his fervices to the fenate. Such were the exifting 

 troubles at that time, that it was not till the year 17 13 

 that government appointed him to be profefTor of eloquence 

 and poetry at Griefswald. But he preferred a humble and 

 more private fituation as tutor to the two fons of count 

 Cronhielm, with whom he made a tour to England, Hol- 

 land, France, and Germany. Purfuing a fimilar tour with 

 a young Holftein count, and becoming acquainted with 

 the duke of Holftein, he was appointed his cabinet-fecre- 

 tary, in conneftion with the profe(ror{hip of the law of 

 nature and nations at Kiel. And in the fame year king 

 Frederick made him hiftoriographer to the kingdom ; on which 

 office he entered at Stockholm in November 1719. His 

 works were numerous and learned ; but his conftitution was 

 feeble, fo that he funk under his labours, and died in 1755. 

 Although he was more than thirty years old when he went 

 to Sweden, he obtained a thorough acquaintance with the 

 Swediflt hiftory : he was alfo well acquainted with the 

 public law of Germany ; and in his earlier years he had 

 raifed himfelf by writing Latin poetry. He was alfo a 

 good philofopher, and a theologian, and often preached. 

 His memory was fingularly retentive ; and this ferved him 

 in various works which he compofed after having loft his 

 fight in 1 741. Many of his works were loft at the capture 

 of Pernau. During his tour with the fons of count Cron- 

 hielm, he publifhed at Frankfort, in 1717, " Diatriba de 

 Jure at Judice Legatorum a Stephano CafGo ;" " Suecias 

 Hiftoria Pragmatica, quae vulgo jus publicum dicitur, &c." 

 Holm. 1731, 4to. ; "The Foundation, Nature, Origin, 

 and Antiquity of the Swedi(h Laws, with an Account of 

 the Changes and Alterations which have been made in them," 

 ibid. 1736, 4to. ; " PufFendorf's Introduftion to the Hif- 

 tory of Sweden, with Additions, Proofs, and Notes," by J. 

 Wilde; "I. Pjrt," ibid. 1738, 4to. ; " II. Part," ibid. 

 1743, 4to. ; " Preparatio hodegetica ad Introduftionem 

 PulFendorfii in Svethici flatus Hifloriam, &c." ibid. 1743> 

 4to. Gen. Biog. 



Wilde, in Geography, a river of Pruffian Lithuania, 

 which runs into the Ruffe. 



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