W I L 
Other bars he lays before me, 
My riots past, my wild societies. Shakspeare. 
Uncouth; strange. 
What are these. 
So wither’d, and so wild in their attire. 
That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ the earth, 
And yet are on’t. Shakspeare. 
Done or made without any consistent order or plan. 
With mountains, as with weapons arm’d ; they make 
Wild work in heaven. Milton. 
Merely imaginary.—As universal as these appear to be, an 
effectual remedy might be applied : I am not at present upon 
a wild speculative project, but such a one as may be easily 
put in execution. Swift. 
WILD, s. A desert; a tract uncultivated and uninhabited. 
We sometimes 
Who dwell this wild, constrain’d by want come forth 
To town or village nigh. Milton. 
You rais’d these hallow’d walls: the desert smil’d, 
And paradise was open’d in the wild. Pope. 
WILD Basil, s. [ acinus, Lat.] A plant. Miller. 
WILD Cucumber, s. [elaterium, Lat.] A plant.—The 
branches are somewhat like those of the cucumber; but have 
no tendrils; the fruit is prickly 7 , and when ripe bursts with 
great elasticity, and abounds with fetid juice. Miller. 
WILD Olive, s. [eleagnus, Lat., from eXanz, Gr., oliva, 
and ayvoc, vitexi] This"plant hath leaves like those of the 
chaste tree, and a fruit like an olive. Miller. 
WILD Service, s. [ cratcegus, Lat.] A plant. Miller. 
WILDA, a market town of the Austrian states, in Lower 
Styria, on the Murr; 13 miles south-south-east of Grafz. 
WILDAU, or WILDEN, a large village of the Austrian 
states, in Tyrol, about a mile south of Innspruck, on the river 
Sil. 
WILDBAD, a neatly built small town of Germany, in 
Wirtemberg, on the Enz ; 27 miles west of Stutgard. Po¬ 
pulation 1500. 
WILDBERG, a small town of Germany, in Wirtemberg, 
on the river Nagold; 21 miles west-south-west of Stutgard. 
Population 1500. 
WILDBOAR CLOUGH, a township of England, in 
Cheshire. 
WILDE (James), a Swedish historian, was born in Cour- 
land in 1679, and educated at Riga ; and having quitted that 
city in 1695, he sought farther improvement in several Ger¬ 
man academies, graduating M. A. at Griefswald. At the age 
of 21, such was his proficiency in various branches of lite¬ 
rature, he was appointed co-rector of the cathedral school at 
Riga, and soon after teacher of politics, history, and elo¬ 
quence, in the royal gymnasium of that place. Qualified by 
his talents and acquirements for a higher rank in the depart¬ 
ment of instruction, he was invited, in 1703, to be professor 
of history 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 eloquence and poetry, which 
he occupied for five years. He was a philosopher, and a 
theologian, and-often preached. His memory was singu¬ 
larly retentive ; and this served him in various works which 
he composed after having lost his sight in 1741. Many of 
his works were lost at the capture of Pernau. He published 
at Frankfort, in 1717, “ Diatriba de Jure et Judice Lega- 
torum a Stephano Cassio;” “ Sueciss Historia Pragmatica, 
quse vulgo jus publicum dicitur, &c.” Holm. 1731, 4to. ; 
“ The Foundation, Nature, Origin, and Antiquity of the 
Swedish Laws, with an Account of the Changes and Altera¬ 
tions which have been made in them,” ibid. 1786, 4to.; 
“ Puffendorf’s Introduction to the History of Sweden, with 
Additions, Proofs, and Notes,” by J. Wilde; “ I. Part," 
ibid. 1738, 4to.; “ II. Part," ibid. 1743, 4to.; “ Preparatio 
hodegetica ad Introductionem Puffendorfii in Svethici status 
Historiam, &c.” ibid. 1743, 4to.— Gen. Biog. 
WILDEMANN, a town of Hanover, in the Upper Hartz; 
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26 miles north-north-east of Gottingen. It has 1000 inhabit¬ 
ants. 
WILDEN, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 5 miles 
north-east of Bedford. 
WILDEN GRANGE, a township of England, North 
Riding of Yorkshire; 5^ miles north-by west of Easingwold; 
WlLDENBERG, a village of the Prussian province of 
Cleves and Berg; 35 miles east of Cologne. Population 
1500. 
WILDENFELS, a town of Germany, in Saxony; 6 miles 
east-south-east of Zwickau. It has 1000 inhabitants. 
WILDENHAUL, or Wildiiaus, a village and parish of 
Switzerland, in the canton of St. Gall, near the source of the 
Thur. The celebrated Swiss reformer Ubrich Zwinglius, 
was born here in 1484; 8 miles south of Appenzell. 
WILDENS (John), was born at Antwerp in 1584. He 
became an admired painter of landscapes, but under whom 
he acquired the art is unknown. He appears to have been a 
diligent observer of nature, and to have studied much in the 
open air; as his studies of forests, fields, &c. are numerous. 
When he had obtained considerable reputation, his talents 
introduced him to the notice of Rubens, who employed him 
to assist in executing the landscape parts of back-grounds, 
which he did with so great felicity, that there appears no 
dissimilarity in styles in the pictures on which they both 
took their respective parts. Two of his best pictures are in 
the chapel of St. Joseph at Antwerp, embellished with fi¬ 
gures by Lang Jan: the subject of one is the Flight into 
Egypt, and of the other a reposo. He died in 1644, aged 
sixty. 
WILDENSCHWERT, a town of Bohemia, on the river 
called the Still Adler; 10 miles east-by-north of Hohen- 
mauth. Population 2200. 
WILDENSTEIN, a small town of Germany, in Baden, 
near the Danube; 7 miles east-north-east of Mosskirch. 
To WI'LDER, v. a. To lose or puzzle in an unknown or 
pathless tract. 
Oh thou! who freest me from my doubtful state, 
Long lost and wilder'd in the maze of fate, 
Be present still. Pope. 
Wl'LDERNESS, s. A desert; a tract of solitude and 
savageness. 
O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows! 
When that my care could not withhold thy riots, 
What wilt thou do when riot is thy care? 
O, thou wilt be a wilderness again, 
Peopled with wolves thy old inhabitants ! Shakspeare. 
The state of being wild or disorderly. Not in use. 
The paths and bowers, doubt not, but our joint hands 
Will keep from wilderness with ease. Milton. 
WILDERNESS, a post village of the United States, in 
Spottsylvania county, Virginia. 
WILDERVANK, a town of the Netherlands, province of 
Groningen; 9 miles south-south-west of Winschoten. Po¬ 
pulation 2700. 
WILDESHAIJSEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Oldenburg, on the Hunte; 19 miles south-west of Bre¬ 
men. Population 1800. 
WI'LDFIRE, s. A composition of inflammable materials, 
easy to take fire, and hard to be extinguished.—When thou 
rann’st up Gadshill in the night to catch my horse, I did 
think thou had’st been an ignis fatuus, or a ball of wildfire. 
Shakspeare. 
WILDGOOSECHA'SE, s. A pursuit of something as un¬ 
likely to be caught as the wildgoose.—If our wits run the 
wildgoosechase, I have done; for thou hast more of the 
wildgoose in one of thy wits, then I have in my whole five. 
Shakspeare. 
WIL'DING, s. [ wildelinghe, Dutch.] A wild sour apple. 
Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. 
And stood on tip-toes, reaching from the ground. Drpden. 
WI'LDLY, adv. Without cultivation.—That which grows 
