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Webster 1913 Edition
Wildfire
Wild′fire
,Noun.
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.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Wildfire
WILDFIRE
,Noun.
1.
A composition of inflammable materials.Brimstone, pitch, wildfire, burn easily, and are hard to quench.
2.
A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin; a kind of erysipelas.