Wildfire

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wildfire \Wild"fire\, n.
     1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is
        very hard to quench; Greek fire.
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              Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and


              hard to quench.                       --Bacon.
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     2. (Med.)
        (a) An old name for erysipelas.
        (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the
            skin.
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     3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wildfire
       n : a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration