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Blaze \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.
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2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek
shelter from the blaze of the sun.
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
--Milton.
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3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an
outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot."
"His blaze of wrath." --Shak.
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame? --Milton.
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4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the
forehead of a horse.
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5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark,
usually as a surveyor's mark.
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Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same
tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze
a settlement or neighborhood road. --Carlton.
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{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.
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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.
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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.
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Blaze \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.
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2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to
show a blaze.
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And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
--Wordsworth.
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3. To be resplendent. --Macaulay.
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{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.]
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Blaze \Blaze\, v. t.
1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
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I found my way by the blazed trees. --Hoffman.
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2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees;
as, to blaze a line or path.
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Champollion died in 1832, having done little more
than blaze out the road to be traveled by others.
--Nott.
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Blaze \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.
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On charitable lists he blazed his name. --Pollok.
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To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
--Pope.
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2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] --Peacham.
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