wildfire
(noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wildfire (countable and uncountable, plural wildfires)
A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
(historical) Greek fire, Byzantine fire.
A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.
(figuratively) Something that acts quickly and uncontrollably.
• forest fire
Source: Wiktionary
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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 March 2025
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
