wildfire

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WILDFIRE, noun [wild and fire.] 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.
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