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.
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.
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.]
Blaze (blāz), n. [OE. blase, AS.
blæse, 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.
&fist; 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.
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.
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