Category: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.]