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The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. Shak.

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

nd qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.

bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.

A wild duck (Aythya, or Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

d spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

Any species of wild ox.

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.

nus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

yden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

ee Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.