'Wildfire' definitions:
Definition of 'wildfire'
From: WordNet
noun
A raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
Definition of 'Wildfire'
From: GCIDE
- Wildfire \Wild"fire\, n.
- 1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire. [1913 Webster]
- Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) (a) An old name for erysipelas. (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.] [1913 Webster]