scathefire

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  1. Destructive flames; confiagration. In a great scathfire it is wisdom not only to suffer those houses to burn down which are past quenching, but sometimes to pull down some few houses wherein the fire is not yet kindled, to free all the rest of the city from danger. Abp. Bramhall, Works, III. 559. (Davies.)

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