wildering

English

Etymology 1

Noun

wildering (plural wilderings)

1. (botany) A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.

Etymology 2

Adjective

wildering (comparative more wildering, superlative most wildering)

1. (poetic) Bewildering.
   • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Georgian Planet, page 88:

     Alas! how weak is reason's wildering chain!
     How low we fall, from heights we seek to gain!
     The lamp of Science, through the mists afar,
     Fades like the sun upon the Georgian star; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wildering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rewilding, weirdling