WILDFIRE

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

An old name for erysipelas.

3.
n.

A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

4.
n.

A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]


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