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!
--Milton.
3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an
outburst; a brilliant display. ``Fierce blaze of riot.''
``His blaze of wrath.'' --Shak.
For what is glory but the blaze of fame? --Milton.
4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] 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. --Carlton.
{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.'' --Poem in Essex dialect.
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. --Neal.
Usage: 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.
On charitable lists he blazed his name. --Pollok.
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
--Pope.
2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] --Peacham.
2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to
show a blaze.
And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
--Wordsworth.
3. To be resplendent. --Macaulay.
{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.]
I found my way by the blazed trees. --Hoffman.
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.
--Nott.