Definition of wildes:
(n) :
A surname from Middle English.
(adj) :
Obsolete spelling of wild. [Untamed; not domesticated.]
(n) :
Ellipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre.