Definitions
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 ofblae . Seeblae , 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.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Warm days came, and the sun drew another blaze from the free-bosomed earth.
The Golden Poppy 2010
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The blaze is near an area where a wildfire burned almost 10 square miles and 169 homes last month.
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* When you harvest a gobbler, carry it out of the woods draped in blaze orange.
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The one liberally sprinkled in blaze orange post-its. the calendar with things like Gymbucks clipped to the right month, and a pen clipped to the whole thing for easy scribbling.
my head + kapow kittenpie 2009
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* When you harvest a gobbler, carry it out of the woods draped in blaze orange.
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We will not fall, but rise in blaze of loss and call, and fly into our births and cry inferno, aye, incinerate your lie. posted by Hal Duncan | 12: 49 AM
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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I have piled up deer while hunting in blaze orange and jeans.
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I have piled up deer while hunting in blaze orange and jeans.
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We will not fall, but rise in blaze of loss and call, and fly into our births and cry inferno, aye, incinerate your lie. posted by Hal Duncan | 12: 49 AM
The Lucifer Cantos 10/13 Hal Duncan 2009
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The one liberally sprinkled in blaze orange post-its. the calendar with things like Gymbucks clipped to the right month, and a pen clipped to the whole thing for easy scribbling.
Archive 2009-06-01 kittenpie 2009
whichbe commented on the word blaze
A contranym: both the act of creation ("thriving, alight") and destruction ("burning up"). Ah, the double-edge of fire.
August 2, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word blaze
Name of a medical marijuana strain.
January 15, 2010