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Blaze Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Blaze: blaze away | blaze out | blazing | brilliance | glare | hell | hell Related Terms | Find terms related to Blaze: arrow | backfire | bake | balefire | be bright | be in heat | beacon | beacon fire | beam | bedazzle | birthmark | blare | blare forth | blast | blaze a trail | 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speck | speckle | splash | splendor | splotch | spot | spunk up | stain | stamp | steam | stew | stifle | stigma | stigmatize | storm | strawberry mark | streak | streaming light | striate | stripe | suffocate | sweat | swelter | swinge | take | take fire | tattoo | tattoo mark | tempest | three-alarm fire | thunder | thunder forth | tick | tick off | tittle | toast | tooth | tornado | torrefy | trace | trumpet | trumpet forth | two-alarm fire | underline | underscore | upheaval | Vandyke | vesicate | vividness | vulcanize | watch fire | watermark | weld | whirlwind | wildfire | witch fire 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 Blaze In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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