wilde
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Wilde weorf,
- Ll. Th. i. 356, 4.
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Mettas . . . þá þe gód blód wyrceað, swá swá sint. . . wilda hænna and ealle þá fugelas þe on dúnum libbað, Lch. ii. 244, 25. I a. :-- Hors wilde yrnan equos solutos currere, Lch. iii. 202, 32. V a. of people,
uncivilized, uncultivated
:-- Ær hé hét faran tó strǽtum and tó wícum, getácnigende ꝥ Iúdéa folc þe . . . on gehendnysse wǽron. Nú hé hét faran tó wegum and hegum, getácnigende þæt wilde folc þe hé gegaderode of eallum middanearde,- Hml. Th. ii. 372, 15-19.
Bosworth, Joseph. “wilde.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/60520.
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