An old garden plant escaped and wilded.
J. Earle.
Wil"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wildered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Wildering.] [Akin to E. wild, Dan. forvilde to bewilder, Icel. villr
bewildered, villa to bewilder; cf. AS. wildor a wild animal. See Wild,
a., and cf. Wilderness.] To bewilder; to perplex.
Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate.
Pope.
Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they
rose.
Bryant.
Wild"er*ing (?), n. (Bot.) A plant growing in a state of nature;
especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.
Wil"der*ment (?), n. The state of being bewildered; confusion;
bewilderment.
And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and
death.
Moore.
Wil"der*ness (?), n. [OE. wildernesse, wilderne,probably from AS.
wildor a wild beast; cf. D. wildernis wilderness. See Wilder, v. t.]
1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human
beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a
desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply.
Waller.