Blaze
Blaze (blāz) , noun
[Old English blase, Anglo-Saxon blase, blase; akin to Old High German blass whitish, German blass pale, Middle High German blas torch, Icelandic blys torch; perh. from the same root as English blast. Compare 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.
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.
Collocations (2)
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.
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.
Blaze ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
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. — Macaulay
Collocations (1)
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. [Colloquial]
Blaze , transitive verb
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 , transitive verb
[Old English blasen to blow; perh. confused with blast and blaze a flame, Old English blase. Compare 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.
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
2.
(Heraldry) To blazon. [Obsolete] — Peacham