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wildfire |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wildfire \Wild"fire\, n. 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. (Med.) a An old name for erysipelas. b A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin. 3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wildfire n : an raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
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