Definition of "blaze"

blaze¹

/bleɪz/

noun
plural blazes
1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
  Quotations
  Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
  Quotations
  O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
  1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 13
3. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
4. (color) A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
5. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
  Quotations
  his blaze of wrath
  c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene v]
  For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
  1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 56
6. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
  Quotations
  The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.
  1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Early Years in the Far West - Page 71‎
7. (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.

blaze²

/bleɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed
1. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
2. (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
  Quotations
  And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
  1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
  Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
3. (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
4. (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
5. (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
6. (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
7. (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
  Quotations
  They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart's tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees "blazed" and marked "S.," as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration.
  1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 105
  We drew them up, therefore, and concealed them among the bushes, blazing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again.
  1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
8. (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
9. (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
10. (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
  Quotations
  "I'll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!" blazed the girl.
  1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand, page 160
11. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
  Quotations
  I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what's amazing is how I keep blazing
  2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas
  Fam, I don't blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I'm like mm, kill it
  2015, Jme (lyrics and music), “Pulse 8” (track 1), in Integrity>, performed by Jme

blaze³

/bleɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed
1. (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
2. (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
3. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
4. (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
  Quotations
  And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.
  1576, Gerard LEGH, The Accedens of Armory. With an address to the Reader by R. Argoll. Woodcuts. MS. notes, page 28
  [...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.
  1597, John Bossewell, Works of Armorie: devided into 3 Bookes, intituled the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor and of lotes and creastes, page 28
  Beinge thus blazed: Henzell On a ffeild Gules, beareth Three Acornes Slipped Or; Two and One.
  1877, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, Collections for a genealogy of the noble families of Henzey, Tyttery, and Tyzack, page 26
noun
plural blazes
1. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

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