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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wild·fire /-ˌfaɪr/
 古時攻打敵船所用的燃料劑,燐火,鬼火

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 wildfire
      n : a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration