Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WILD
WILD, n.
A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract, or region; a forest or sandy desert; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa; the sandy wilds of Arabia. Then Libya first, of all her moisture drain'd, / Became a barren waste, a wild of sand. – Addison.
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