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Blaze   /bleɪz/   Listen
noun
Blaze  n.  
1.
A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled."
2.
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!"
3.
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?"
4.
A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
5.
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.  
1.
To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees."
2.
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.  
1.
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."
2.
(Her.) To blazon. (Obs.)


Blaze  v. i.  (past & past part. blazed; pres. part. blazing)  
1.
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
2.
To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. "And far and wide the icy summit blazed."
3.
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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"Blaze" Quotes from Famous Books



... their cares and became as young in spirit as the boys and girls. Jokes, stories and good-humored banter passed back and forth until with one accord everybody rose from the table and sauntered into the library where a great blaze ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... suddenly to blaze up in Stanley Rees. He cast a furious glance at the man whose fingers had twisted ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... ships vanish, and the drowning shriek of mortals and the rejoicing laugh of fiends are heard, and the old hulls are left as a memorial that the old spiritual kingdom has not departed from the earth. But I maun away, and trim my little cottage fire, and make it burn and blaze up bonnie, to warm the crickets, and my cold and crazy bones, that maun soon be laid aneath the green sod in the eerie kirkyard." And away the old dame tottered to her cottage, secured the door on the inside, and soon the hearth-flame ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... his labours. The next thing was to light a fire—a comfort which he had not enjoyed for many weary days. Not that he required it for warmth, for the weather was extremely warm, but he required it to cook with, and the mere sight of a blaze in a dark place is a most heart-cheering thing, as ...
— The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... there is a mill on fire somewhere, sure enough by the light, and it will be a rare blaze, for there's not a drop o' water to be got. And much Carsons will care, for they're well insured, and the machines are a' th' oud-fashioned kind. See if they don't think it a fine thing for themselves. They'll not thank them as tries to ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell


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