3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. [Obs.]

These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands. Will keep from

wilderness with ease.

Milton.

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.

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