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ass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot. Pope.

The entire cavity of the prosencephalon. B. G. Wilder.

To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.

The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See Ventricle. B. G. Wilder.

Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

To be bewildered, or perplexed. A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing. L'Estrange.

The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A South African wild ass (Equus, or Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.

ecutive. Qualified property (Law), that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment.

, including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas. Most of these Indians are short, but heavy and strong. They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity. Nevertheless, they represent one of the highest of native American c…

Company; herd; breed. For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds. Shak .

.), an herb (Raphanus caudatus) having a long, slender pod, which is sometimes eaten. -- Wild radish (Bot.), the jointed charlock.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Wild; untamed. [Obs.]

Wild; not tame. [Obs.] Now is he tame that was so ramagious. Remedy of Love.

A wild, romping young person. [Low] Marrya

Wild; noisy; boisterous.

A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]

To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. In our madness evermore we rave. Chaucer. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast Addison. The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Kiliecrankie.…

Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- Rav"ing*ly, adv.