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Brewer's: Spontaneous Combustion
Taking fire without the intervention of applied heat. Greasy rags heaped together, hay stacked in a damp state, coal-dust in coal mines, cinders and ashes in dust bins, are said to be liable to spontaneous combustion.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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