Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blaze"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blaze \Blaze\ (bl[=a]z), n. [OE. blase, AS. bl[ae]se, blase;
akin to OHG. blass whitish, G. blass pale, MHG. blas torch,
Icel. blys torch; perh. fr. the same root as E. blast. Cf.
{Blast}, {Blush}, {Blink}.]
1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the
process of combustion; a bright flame. ``To heaven the
blaze uprolled.'' --Croly.

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.

Syn: {Blaze}, {Flame}.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blaze \Blaze\, v. t. [OE. blasen to blow; perh. confused with
blast and blaze a flame, OE. blase. Cf. {Blaze}, v. i., and
see {Blast}.]
1. 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.

2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] --Peacham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blazed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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.
--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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blaze \Blaze\, v. t.
1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

blaze
n 1: a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread
rapidly" [syn: {blazing}]
2: a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to
blazes" [syn: {hell}]
3: noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" [syn: {hell}]
4: great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a
blaze of color" [syn: {glare}, {brilliance}]
5: a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the
trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its
eyes"
v 1: shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the
atmosphere."
2: shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men"
[syn: {blaze away}]
3: burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause
a pine to blaze."
4: move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out
into space" [syn: {blaze out}]
5: indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"


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