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Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, bu…

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus).

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.

Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.

To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

rk . . . introduced for oratorical effect. J. C. Shairp. The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. W. Irving.

Like a wild beast; fierce. [Obs.]

The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

ned, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive. The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art. Spectator.

sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).

m Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.