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verb

Blaze v. t.

To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees."

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.

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."

(Her.) To blazon. (Obs.)

Blaze v. i. (past & past part. blazed; pres. part. blazing)

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

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. "And far and wide the icy summit blazed."

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.)

adjective

Blazing adj. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

Blazing star.

(a)

A comet. (Obs.)

(b)

A brilliant center of attraction.

(c)

(Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamaelirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blazing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bolton itself was depopulated. For days past the comet had been blazing brighter and brighter, even in the broad daylight, and the reports which came pouring in every day from the observatories of the world made it perfectly clear that Lennard's calculations would ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

... in the mist itself. Had it a mind, and a will, and a perception of propriety? Did the mist become sensible of the lightness of its behavior, and the fire resolve to cool off a little, and both consult together on the propriety of dropping their erratic blazing through infinite space, and resolve to settle down into orderly, well-behaved suns and planets? In the division of the property, what became of the mind? Did it go to the sun, or to the moon, or to the ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... a cold frosty evening in March, and the fire was burning brightly on the hearth. Aaron Dunn took up the drawing quietly— very quietly—and rolling it up, as such drawings are rolled, put it between the blazing logs. It was the work of four evenings, and his chef-d'oeuvre in the way ...

— The Courtship of Susan Bell • Anthony Trollope

... are mad, with their swirling orbs and blazing comets, that rush sighing through space before some terrible power that will give them no respite, except with the condition that when they rest ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various

... thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.' Isaiah has nothing to say about ritual or ceremonial omissions, which to him were but surface matters after all, but he sets in blazing light the foundation facts of Judah's (and every man's) distorted relation to God. And how lovingly, as well as sternly, God speaks through him! That divine lament which heralds the searching indictment is not unworthy to be the very words of the Almighty ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

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