Blaze

Definition of Blaze

Pronunciation: blāz

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

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!

- Milton.

A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

- Milton.

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.

- Carlton.

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

Like blazes
furiously; rapidly. - Poem in Essex dialect.

v. i.

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

[imp. & p. p. Blazed ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing.]

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

And far and wide the icy summit blazed.

- Wordsworth.

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.

v. t.

To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

I found my way by the blazed trees.

- Hoffman.

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.

- Nott.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

On charitable lists he blazed his name.

- Pollok.

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.

- Pope.

(Her.) To blazon.

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