Wildfire: Definition and part of speech

Wildfire

n. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.
n. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
n. An old name for erysipelas.
n. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

adv. Wildly; as, to talk wild.
superl. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
superl. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
superl. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
superl. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
superl. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
superl. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
superl. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
superl. Hard to steer; — said of a vessel.
n. An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.

a. Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
a. Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; — said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

n. A home; a dwelling.
n. A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; — called also wicker.