Emily Dickinson Lexicon

wild (-er), adj. [OE wilde, bewildered, astray.]

1. Stormy; windy; experiencing rough weather; [fig.] intense; stressed; highly charged with emotion.
2. Turbulent; tempestuous; tumultuous.
3. Native; undomesticated; uncultivated; untamed; common; raised in a natural state.
4. Wondrous; miraculous; remarkable; marvelous.
5. Uninhabited; unpopulated; unsettled; not easily accessible; like a wilderness.
6. Impetuous; rash; thoughtless; imprudent; irresponsible; unreasonable.
7. Phrase. “Wild nights”: process of dying; time of death; passing away to the other side (see L331, ED's 1869 letter to Perez Cowan, “Dying is a wild Night”).