Wilding

These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.

Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]

Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.

The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.

Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.

The wilding bee hums merrily by.

And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]