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In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.

A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.

In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast. Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand. He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by. Milton. Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope.

Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.

tic language. To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. Dryden. To lash out, to strike out wildly or furiously.

run like mad. L'Estrange. -- To run mad. (a) To become wild with excitement. (b) To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia. -- To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. "The world is running mad after farce." Dryden.…

In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

To stare wildly. [Obs.] Ascham.

To rush wildly or furiously. Spencer.

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

o as to fly into the air. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay.

Wildly; as, to talk wild. Shak.