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.
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