rare. [f. WILD a. Cf. AWILDEN (OE. áwildian), MHG. wilden.]
1. intr. Of an animal or plant: To be or become wild; to run wild, grow wild.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 136. Vet kelf & to wilde is þet fleschs þet awiligeð [MS. T. wildes] so sone hit euer uetteð.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. iii. (Skeat), l. 45. Heerdes gonne to wilde.
1880. Earle, Engl. Plant Names, 86. This is held by botanists to be an old garden-plant escaped and wilded.
2. trans. To make wild, in various senses; † esp. to affect with frenzy, to madden (obs.).
1421. Hoccleve, Compl., 235. This grevous venyme that had enfectyd and wildyd my brayne.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] xxii. 71. The Mad worme hath wilded all Humanitie.
1655. Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. Misery, 81. Thus wilded by a peevish heart … I storm at thee.
