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verb

Blaze v. t.

To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees."

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 v. t.

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."

(Her.) To blazon. (Obs.)

Blaze v. i. (past & past part. blazed; pres. part. blazing)

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

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. "And far and wide the icy summit blazed."

To be resplendent.

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.)

adjective

Blazing adj. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

Blazing star.

(a)

A comet. (Obs.)

(b)

A brilliant center of attraction.

(c)

(Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamaelirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

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"Blazing" Quotes from Famous Books

... We at first were too hungry to talk, but I gleaned from one or two remarks made by my friends that their family had escaped from the Indians, and were encamped for the winter at some distance to the eastward. There was plenty of dry underwood about, so we had made a blazing fire, round which we were seated. We had all lighted our pipes, and Obed was about to begin his narrative, when an Ottoe Indian came and said a few words to John Pipestick, who ...

— Dick Onslow - Among the Redskins • W.H.G. Kingston

... lakes, we came to where the river flows in from the south down three heavy rapids. On the west side of its entrance to the lake we found the old trail. The blazing was weather worn and old, but the trail was a good one, and had been much used in the days long ago. The portage was little more than a quarter of a mile long, and we put our canoes into the water again in a tiny ...

— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)

... thought it in his own mind. The little bird sang his own song merrily; in the street below there was driving and running to and fro, every one thought of his own affairs, or perhaps of nothing at all; but the bottle neck thought deeply. He thought of the blazing furnace in the factory, where he had been blown into life; he remembered how hot it felt when he was placed in the heated oven, the home from which he sprang, and that he had a strong inclination to leap out again directly; but after a while it became cooler, ...

— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

... something which is born of restraint, clean living, and arduous physical toil. It is to be seen in the eyes of those who, living in Spartan simplicity, make long marches with the dog-sledges in the Arctic frost, drive the logs down roaring rivers, or toil sixteen hours daily under a blazing sun in the western harvest field. In all probability it was as plainly stamped on the honest countenance of many an unconsidered English Tommy who plodded doggedly forward with the relief columns across the dusty veldt. ...

— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss

... or not. She thought the girl would grant the interview; was sure the creature would yield in his presence; and then there was an end to the shining of Alvan! Supposing the other possibility, he had shown her such fierce illuminations of eye and speech that she foresaw it would be a blazing of the insurrectionary beacon-fires of hell with him. He was a man of angels and devils. The former had long been conquering, but the latter were far from extinct. His passion for this shallow girl had consigned him to the lower host. Let him be thwarted, his desperation would ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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