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blaze

bleɪz
WordNet
View of the blazing fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, seen from the other side of the Keizersgracht. The fire brigade prepares fire spray pumps. Part of a series of four prints with title print about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg.
View of the blazing fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, seen from the other side of the Keizersgracht. The fire brigade prepares fire spray pumps. Part of a series of four prints with title print about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg.
  1. (v) blaze
    indicate by marking trees with blazes "blaze a trail"
  2. (v) blaze
    shoot rapidly and repeatedly "He blazed away at the men"
  3. (v) blaze
    move rapidly and as if blazing "The spaceship blazed out into space"
  4. (v) blaze
    burn brightly and intensely "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"
  5. (v) blaze
    shine brightly and intensively "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
  6. (n) blaze
    noisy and unrestrained mischief "raising blazes"
  7. (n) blaze
    a light-colored marking "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes","the horse had a blaze between its eyes"
  8. (n) blaze
    a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted "a glare of sunlight"
  9. (n) blaze
    a cause of difficulty and suffering "war is hell","go to blazes"
  10. (n) blaze
    a strong flame that burns brightly "the blaze spread rapidly"
Illustrations
Answer to the print with the campaign of Frederik Hendrik blazingly through Brabant, May 13-20, 1622. Bird's eye view of Brabant with cities and the Dutch troops under Frederik Hendrik that travel through the country and set fire to. In the left foreground a group of happy dancing devils. Below the plate a text in 4 columns in Dutch. In the third column an illustration of Coppen de Coster's dream with a devil with a letter on horseback. In the fourth column a mocking song on Frederik Hendrik in the tune of the Wilhelmus.
Answer to the print with the campaign of Frederik Hendrik blazingly through Brabant, May 13-20, 1622. Bird's eye view of Brabant with cities and the Dutch troops under Frederik Hendrik that travel through the country and set fire to. In the left foreground a group of happy dancing devils. Below the plate a text in 4 columns in Dutch. In the third column an illustration of Coppen de Coster's dream with a devil with a letter on horseback. In the fourth column a mocking song on Frederik Hendrik in the tune of the Wilhelmus.
Interior with a young couple making music by a blazing fire. The woman is playing the piano and the man a bass. In the margin a six-line poem in French.
Interior with a young couple making music by a blazing fire. The woman is playing the piano and the man a bass. In the margin a six-line poem in French.
Leander, a youth from Abydus, swims across the Hellespont River every night, led by a blazing beacon of fire, to meet his beloved Hero. In a stormy night, he drowns and is carried away by nereids. In the margin a twelve-line poem, in four columns, in Latin. Below that a two-line caption with a command in Latin.
Leander, a youth from Abydus, swims across the Hellespont River every night, led by a blazing beacon of fire, to meet his beloved Hero. In a stormy night, he drowns and is carried away by nereids. In the margin a twelve-line poem, in four columns, in Latin. Below that a two-line caption with a command in Latin.
View of the auditorium at the start of the blazing fire in the theater. The public flees in panic. Part of a group of illustrations about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on May 11, 1772.
View of the auditorium at the start of the blazing fire in the theater. The public flees in panic. Part of a group of illustrations about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on May 11, 1772.
War and tyranny ravaged the Netherlands during the French occupation. Great blazing fire in which war, envy and tyranny rage and innocent civilians are murdered. On the left a Roman mass, on the right the making of peace between Brandenburg and France. Allegory of the political situation in the Republic in the year 1674. Numbered top right: 4.
War and tyranny ravaged the Netherlands during the French occupation. Great blazing fire in which war, envy and tyranny rage and innocent civilians are murdered. On the left a Roman mass, on the right the making of peace between Brandenburg and France. Allegory of the political situation in the Republic in the year 1674. Numbered top right: 4.
View of the blazing fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on 11 May 1772, seen from the other side of the Keizersgracht. The fire brigade prepares fire spray pumps. Chests and suitcases are carried from the theater. Below the performance the title and a two-line verse in Dutch (left) and French (right). Part of a series of four prints with title print about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg.
View of the blazing fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on 11 May 1772, seen from the other side of the Keizersgracht. The fire brigade prepares fire spray pumps. Chests and suitcases are carried from the theater. Below the performance the title and a two-line verse in Dutch (left) and French (right). Part of a series of four prints with title print about the fire in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Blaze
    A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot.", "His blaze of wrath.", "For what is glory but the blaze of fame?"
  2. Blaze
    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."
  3. Blaze
    A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled."
  4. Blaze
    A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
  5. Blaze
    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!"
  6. Blaze
    To be resplendent.
  7. Blaze
    (Her) To blazon.
  8. Blaze
    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."
  9. Blaze
    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."
  10. Blaze
    To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees."
  11. Blaze
    To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. "And far and wide the icy summit blazed ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) blaze
    A torch; a fire-brand.
  2. (n) blaze
    A flame; a flaming fire; a confiagration.
  3. (n) blaze
    Figuratively, brilliant sunlight; effulgence; brilliance: as, the blaze of day.
  4. (n) blaze
    A sudden kindling up or bursting out, as of fire, passion, etc.; an active or violent display; wide diffusion.
  5. (n) blaze
    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.
  6. blaze
    To burst into flame; burn with a bright flame or fervent heat; flame: either literally or figuratively.
  7. blaze
    To send forth a bright light; shine like flame or fire: as, a blazing diamond.
  8. blaze
    To be conspicuous; shine brightly with the brilliancy of talents, heroic deeds, etc.
  9. blaze
    To go out with a fiare.
  10. blaze
    To break out with passion or excitement; speak or act violently.
  11. blaze
    To set in a blaze.
  12. blaze
    To temper (steel) by covering it while hot with tallow or oil, which is then burned off.
  13. blaze
    To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly.
  14. blaze
    To blow, as from a trumpet.
  15. blaze
    Hence To publish; make well known; announce in a public manner.
  16. blaze
    To disclose; betray; defame.
  17. blaze
    In heraldry, to blazon. See blazon, n., 1 and 2.
  18. (n) blaze
    Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
  19. (n) blaze
    A white spot on the face of a horse, cow, ox, etc. See cut under blesbok.
  20. (n) blaze
    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.
  21. (n) blaze
    A local English name of the bleak.
  22. blaze
    To mark with a white spot on the face, as a horse: only in the perfect participle blazed.
  23. blaze
    To set a mark on, as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark, so as to show a white spot.
  24. blaze
    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.
  25. (n) blaze
    A pimple.
  26. (n) blaze
    Same as brash, 4 .
  27. blaze
    Irregular spelling of blaes, plural of blae. See blae, n.
  28. (n) blaze
    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.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Blaze
    blāz a rush of light or of flame: a bursting out or active display: a white spot on the face of a horse or ox: a mark made on a tree by cutting off a strip of bark to mark a track or a boundary
  2. (v.i) Blaze
    to burn with a flame: to throw out light
  3. (v.t) Blaze
    blāz to proclaim, to spread abroad
Quotations
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Saki
James Baldwin
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James Baldwin
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler
Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
Samuel Johnson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Idioms

Hot as blue blazes - If something's as hot as blue blazes, it's extremely hot.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. blase, AS. blæse, 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

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Same as Blare; Blazon is the M. E. blasen, with the n retained.

Usage in the news

A babysitter and three young children escaped serious injury after they fled a burning house at 293 Massachusetts Ave. Providence, RI Firefighters Fight 2 Story Wood Frame House Blaze. firehouse.com

So today wraps up my second week here at 96.3 The Blaze, and it has been quite the whirlwind. 963theblaze.com

Apartment-complex residents received aid after Dec 16 blaze. aspentimes.com

Mel Brooks' blazing wit is on glorious display in this joke-filled treasure chest of odds and ends. cleveland.com

Authorities say a blaze that displaced dozens of people from a southwest Michigan apartment complex may have been sparked by a resident trying to cook a squirrel with a propane torch. ksby.com

At least two people inside the home at the time of the blaze escaped without injury. 10tv.com

Menemsha Galley damaged in early morning blaze. mvtimes.com

Chattanooga firefighters battling blaze at Mountain Creek Apartments. timesfreepress.com

Deputy Chief Derrick Sawyer said the boys were playing with a cloth or towel which ignited, and the blaze spread. lewistownsentinel.com

Clocking in at a blazing top speed of 53 mph, the Gator RSX850i lopes across terrain like a predator-pursued gazelle . agriculture.com

Dark-ish bay with a blaze and left hind sock. chronofhorse.com

On Saturday morning, November 26, an Atlas-Five booster will blaze away from its Cape Canaveral launch pad, and with it will go the hopes of scientists spread over half the world. uot.org

The Newark Advocate reported that one the kennel's owners was injured and taken to a hospital after saving four other dogs from the blaze. 10tv.com

Heath Waters, one of the kennel's owners, was injured and taken to a hospital after saving four other dogs from the blaze. 10tv.com

PLANET BIKE BLAZE 1/2 W AND SUPERFLASH LIGHT $54.99 for the set, www.planetbike.com. nytimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

The paper is indeed a trail-blazing one, but as a matter of fact can be treated as comment on the paper of EPR.
On the Paradoxical Book of Bell

After these triggers blazed the trail and proved a working Level-2 system, there are now several algorithms implemented and running in Run VI, so the timing requirements are now a reality.
Progress on Quarkonium Studies in STAR

Due to the limited S/N and uncertainties related to blaze removal, we find the data quality insufficient to exclude the existence of gravitational settling.
Pinning Down Gravitational Settling

As blaze residuals are not properly accounted for in the pipeline order merging, the ´echelle order pattern is clearly visible in the merged spectrum.
Pinning Down Gravitational Settling

A number of graduate students gave impressive talks and poster presentations, signalling that the next generation is ready and willing to continue on the path blazed by the seasoned pioneers and expand the frontiers of knowledge.
Conference Summary: The Cosmic Agitator - Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy

Usage in literature

His eyes blazed with wrath, and his clenched fist was raised high in anathema. "The Trail of '98" by Robert W. Service

It did not wholly help; the Mississippians had keen eyes; the rifles blazed, blazed, blazed! "The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston

Mechanically Eileen tore the letter in two and dropped the fragments on the blazing fire. "The Grell Mystery" by Frank Froest

Her eyes had blazed with it. "Erik Dorn" by Ben Hecht

A thousand fires blazed in the plain, and by each sat fifty men, at the light of the blazing fire. "The Iliad of Homer (1873)" by Homer

The blue star was by then a small sun and the yellow sun blazed hotter each day. "Space Prison" by Tom Godwin

Already new color had come to his face and a new blaze of fire to his eyes. "As It Was in the Beginning" by Philip Verrill Mighels

However, she promptly blazed into indignation which rang true. "Joan of Arc of the North Woods" by Holman Day

They usually had, also, long, adjustable handles, which helped to make endurable the blazing heat of the great logs. "Home Life in Colonial Days" by Alice Morse Earle

He only waited for the termination of another blaze. "The War Trail" by Mayne Reid

Usage in poetry
Kingcup blaze of meadow,
Cuckoo-call.
Is it all a shadow
I recall?
"Autumn" by Manmohan Ghose
Blazing sun
that ends dark hours –
joyous bliss
of loving powers.
"Untitled" by Eberhard Arnold Author object (152)
Is death so near, then?
From this blazing light,
Do I plunge suddenly
Into vortex? Night?
"The Approach" by Robert Nichols
From your blaze alone,
Satin flames of force,
Duty's breath is blown;
No one says : of course.
"Time Without End" by Arthur Rimbaud Author object (64)
The spears blazed thick around me
When I leaped forth again.
But jubilant they found me
To face a thousand men.
"The Warrior Maid" by Anna Hempstead Branch
Something still my heart surveys,
Groping through this dreary maze;
Is it Hope? — then burn and blaze
Forever!
"The Slave's Complaint" by George Moses Horton