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Definitions for: Blaze
[n] noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
[n] a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"
[n] great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color"
[n] a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
[n] a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly"
[v] indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"
[v] shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men"
[v] move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space"
[v] burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"
[v] shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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, 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. 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.
Synonyms: blaze away, blaze out, blazing, brilliance, glare, hell, hell
See Also: beam, blaze up, brightness, burn, burn up, combust, depart, devilment, devilry, deviltry, fire, flame, flame up, flaming, flare, mark, marking, mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, part, rascality, roguery, roguishness, set forth, set off, set out, shenanigan, shine, shoot, start, start out, take off, trouble
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