blaze

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A brilliant burst of fire; a flame.
• noun A destructive fire.
• noun A bright or steady light or glare.
• noun A brilliant, striking display.
• noun A sudden outburst, as of emotion.
• noun Used as an intensive.
• intransitive verb To burn with a bright flame.
• intransitive verb To shine brightly.
• intransitive verb To be resplendent.
• intransitive verb To flare up suddenly.
• intransitive verb To shoot rapidly and continuously.
• intransitive verb To shine or be resplendent with.
• transitive verb To make known publicly; proclaim.
• noun A white or light-colored spot or stripe on the face of an animal, such as a horse.
• noun A mark to indicate a trail, usually painted on or cut into a tree.
• transitive verb To mark (a tree) with a blaze.
• transitive verb To indicate (a trail) by making blazes.
• transitive verb To prepare or lead (the way in an endeavor).

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A torch; a fire-brand.
• noun A flame; a flaming fire; a confiagration.
• noun Figuratively, brilliant sunlight; effulgence; brilliance: as, the blaze of day.
• noun A sudden kindling up or bursting out, as of fire, passion, etc.; an active or violent display; wide diffusion.
• noun In the game of poker, a hand (now seldom or never used) consisting of five court-cards, ranking between two pairs and three of a kind: so called in allusion to the blaze of color displayed.
• To burst into flame; burn with a bright flame or fervent heat; flame: either literally or figuratively.
• To send forth a bright light; shine like flame or fire: as, a blazing diamond.
• To be conspicuous; shine brightly with the brilliancy of talents, heroic deeds, etc.
• To go out with a fiare.
• To break out with passion or excitement; speak or act violently.
• To set in a blaze.
• To temper (steel) by covering it while hot with tallow or oil, which is then burned off.
• To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly.
• noun Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
• To blow, as from a trumpet.
• Hence To publish; make well known; announce in a public manner.
• To disclose; betray; defame.
• In heraldry, to blazon. See blazon, n., 1 and 2.
• noun A pimple.
• noun A white spot on the face of a horse, cow, ox, etc. See cut under blesbok.
• noun A white mark made on a tree, as by removing a piece of the bark, to indicate a boundary, or a path or trail in a forest.
• noun A local English name of the bleak.
• noun Same as brash, 4 .
• To mark with a white spot on the face, as a horse: only in the perfect participle blazed.
• To set a mark on, as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark, so as to show a white spot.
• To indicate or mark out, as by cutting off pieces of the bark of a number of trees in succession: as, to blaze a path through a forest.
• Irregular spelling of blaes, plural of blae. See blae, n.
• noun In physiology, an electric current traversing normal living tissue in a positive direction when a mechanical stimulus is applied; the electric response of living tissue to stimulation. See blaze-current.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
• transitive verb To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees.