WILDFIRE

wildfire. Wildfire, n. gunpowder rolled up wet, a disease

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Wild″fire (?), n. 1. 1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench. Bacon. 2. 2. (Med.) (a) An old name for erysipelas. (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.
3. 3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.