Noun
noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"

Noun
a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"

Noun
great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color"

Noun
a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"

Noun
a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly"

Verb
indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"

Verb
shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men"

Verb
move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space"

Verb
burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"

Verb
shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"

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n.
A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

n.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.

n.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.

n.
A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

n.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

v. i.
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

v. i.
To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

v. i.
To be resplendent.

v. t.
To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

v. t.
To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.

v. i.
To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

v. i.
To blazon.

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Blaze

Blaze (bl&amac;z), n. [OE. blase, AS. bl'91se, 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!

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?

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.

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. &hand; 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

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.

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

Blaze, v. t. 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

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.

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.

2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] Peacham.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.