WILDFIRE
\wˈa͡ɪldfa͡ɪ͡ə], \wˈaɪldfaɪə], \w_ˈaɪ_l_d_f_aɪə]\
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A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
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An old name for erysipelas.
By Oddity Software
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A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
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An old name for erysipelas.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A composition of inflammable materials readily catching fire and hard to be extinguished; Greek fire; "Brimstone, pitch, wildfire, burn easily, and are hard to quench."-Bacon: a kind of lightning unaccompanied by thunder: a name for erysipelas; also a name for lichen circumscriptus, an eruptive disease, consisting of clusters or patches of papulae: a name given to a disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Quinones
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