A desert; a tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide barren plain. In the United States, it is applied only to a forest. In Scripture, it is applied frequently to the deserts of Arabia. The Israelites wandered int he wilderness forty years.

The ocean. The watry wilderness yields no supply. WIILDERNESS.

A state of disorder.

Awood in a garden, resembling a forest.t