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noun

Blaze n.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled."

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!"

A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." "For what is glory but the blaze of fame?"

A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. "Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road."

In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated.

Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. (Low) "The horses did along like blazes tear." Note: In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes.

Synonyms: Blaze, Flame. A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames.

verb

Blaze v. t.

To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees."

To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. "Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others."

Blaze v. t.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. "On charitable lists he blazed his name." "To blaze those virtues which the good would hide."

(Her.) To blazon. (Obs.)

Blaze v. i. (past & past part. blazed; pres. part. blazing)

To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. "And far and wide the icy summit blazed."

To be resplendent.

To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Blaze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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