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Webster 1913 Edition

Blaze

Blaze

(blāz)
,
Noun.
[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.
☞ 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.

Blaze

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
T.
[OE.
blasen
to blow; perh. confused with
blast
and
blaze
a flame, OE.
blase
. Cf.
Blaze
,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Blaze

BLAZE

,
Noun.
[Eng.to blush.]
1.
Flame; the stream of light and heat from any body when burning, proceeding from the combustion of inflammable gas.
2.
Publication; wide diffusion of report. In this sense, we observe the radical sense of dilatation, as well as that of light.
3.
A white spot on the forehead or face of a horse, descending nearly to the nose.
4.
Light; expanded light; as the blaze of day.
5.
Noise; agitation; tumult.

BLAZE

,
Verb.
I.
To flame; as, the fire blazes.
1.
To send forth or show a bright and expanded light.
The third fair morn now blazed upon the main.
2.
To be conspicuous.

BLAZE

,
Verb.
T.
To make public far and wide.
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
1.
To blazon. [Not used. See Blazon.]
2.
To set a white mark on a tree, by paring off a part of the bark.

Definition 2024

Blaze

Blaze

See also: blaze

English

Proper noun

Blaze

  1. A male given name

blaze

blaze

See also: Blaze

English

Noun

blaze ‎(plural blazes)

  1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter III”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].
  2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
    to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun‎
    • John Milton (1608-1674)
      O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
  3. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
    The palomino had a white blaze on its face.‎
  4. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
  5. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst.
  6. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
    • Robert Carlton (B. R. Hall, 1798-1863)
      Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighbourhood road.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase ‎(“torch”). See above.

Verb

blaze ‎(third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)

  1. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.
    The campfire blazed merrily.‎
  2. (intransitive) To shine like a flame.
    • William Wordsworth
      And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
  3. (transitive) To make a thing shine like a flame.
  4. (transitive) To mark or cut (a route, especially through vegetation), or figuratively, to set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge.
    The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.‎
    Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.‎
  5. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈblaːzə]

Verb

blaze

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blazen

Anagrams

Etymology

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase ‎(“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ ‎(“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‎(“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas ‎(“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas ‎(“candle, torch, flame”). Compare Dutch bles ‎(“blaze”), German Blesse ‎(“blaze, mark on an animal's forehead”), Swedish bläs ‎(“blaze”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bleɪz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪz

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