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Wildfire - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Wildfire : (noun)
1: a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.]
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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