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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



... confirm his words outflew Millions of flaming Swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden Blaze Far round illumin'd Hell— ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... so silent this afternoon, Jill?' I asked, rather curiously; but she did not answer for a moment, only drew down my hand, and looked at the diamonds that were flashing in the ruddy blaze,—Giles's pledge that he had placed there; then she laid her cheek against ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... Thais fell on her knees, and burst into tears. Half-forgotten recollections of Ahmes returned to her mind. On the memory of this obscure, gentle, and unfortunate man, the blaze of candles, the perfume of roses, the clouds of incense, the music of hymns, the piety of souls, threw all the charms of glory. Thais thought in the ...
— Thais • Anatole France
... "And there's blaze away from the pinnace and the barge," cried one of the men, who stood on the rattlings of the main rigging. "Hurrah, my lads! keep it up," continued the man, in his feeling of excitement, which, pervading Captain M—-, as well as the rest of the crew, ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... follow. First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze. Presently, after many hasty snatches into the fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the biscuit; ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville


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