'Blaze' definitions:
Definition of 'blaze'
From: WordNet
noun
A strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing]
noun
A cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes" [syn: hell, blaze]
noun
Noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" [syn: hell, blaze]
noun
A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" [syn: glare, blaze, brilliance]
noun
A light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"
verb
Shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
verb
Shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men" [syn: blaze away, blaze]
verb
Burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"
verb
Move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space" [syn: blaze, blaze out]
verb
Indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"
Definition of 'Blaze'
From: GCIDE
- Blaze \Blaze\ (bl[=a]z), n. [OE. blase, AS. bl[ae]se, 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.]
- 1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." --Croly. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. [1913 Webster]
- O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- For what is glory but the blaze of fame? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the forehead of a horse. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. [1913 Webster]
- Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. --Carlton. [1913 Webster]
- In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated.
- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." --Poem in Essex dialect. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes. --Neal. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Blaze, Flame.
- Usage: A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blaze'
From: GCIDE
- Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing.]
- 1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. [1913 Webster]
- And far and wide the icy summit blazed. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be resplendent. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blaze'
From: GCIDE
- Blaze \Blaze\, v. t.
- 1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. [1913 Webster]
- I found my way by the blazed trees. --Hoffman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. [1913 Webster]
- Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. --Nott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blaze'
From: GCIDE
- Blaze \Blaze\, v. t. [OE. blasen to blow; perh. confused with blast and blaze a flame, OE. blase. Cf. Blaze, v. i., and see Blast.]
- 1. To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. [1913 Webster]
- On charitable lists he blazed his name. --Pollok. [1913 Webster]
- To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] --Peacham. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blaze'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrow,
- backfire,
- bake,
- balefire,
- be bright,
- be in heat,
- beacon,
- beacon fire,
- beam,
- bedazzle,
- birthmark,
- blare,
- blare forth,
- blast,
- blaze a trail,
- blaze abroad,
- blaze of light,
- blaze up,
- blazing light,
- blazon,
- blazon about,
- blemish,
- blind,
- blinding light,
- blister,
- bloom,
- blotch,
- boil,
- bombard,
- bonfire,
- brand,
- bright light,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- brilliancy,
- brilliant light,
- broil,
- burn,
- burn in,
- burn off,
- burning ghat,
- burst,
- burst into flame,
- burst of light,
- campfire,
- cast,
- caste mark,
- catch,
- catch fire,
- catch on fire,
- cauterize,
- celebrate,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- char,
- check,
- check off,
- checkmark,
- cheerful fire,
- choke,
- chop,
- cicatrix,
- cicatrize,
- cleft,
- coal,
- combust,
- combustion,
- compass needle,
- conflagration,
- convulsion,
- cook,
- corposant,
- coruscate,
- cozy fire,
- crack,
- crackling fire,
- crematory,
- crena,
- crenellate,
- crenulate,
- crimp,
- cry,
- cry out,
- cupel,
- cut,
- cyclone,
- dapple,
- dash,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- dazzling light,
- death fire,
- declaim,
- define,
- deflagration,
- delimit,
- demarcate,
- depression,
- diffuse light,
- direction,
- direction post,
- discolor,
- discoloration,
- dot,
- earmark,
- effulgence,
- engrave,
- engraving,
- eruption,
- explosion,
- facula,
- fen fire,
- finger post,
- fire,
- fire up,
- fist,
- fit,
- flamboyance,
- flame,
- flame up,
- flare,
- flare up,
- flare-up,
- flash,
- flash fire,
- flashing point,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flicker,
- flickering flame,
- flood of light,
- flush,
- forest fire,
- found,
- fox fire,
- freckle,
- fry,
- fulgor,
- fulgurate,
- funeral pyre,
- gale,
- gash,
- gasp,
- give light,
- glance,
- glare,
- glaring light,
- gleam,
- gleam of light,
- glint,
- glory,
- glow,
- graving,
- guide,
- guideboard,
- guidepost,
- gust,
- hack,
- hand,
- hatch,
- herald,
- herald abroad,
- holocaust,
- hour hand,
- hurricane,
- ignis fatuus,
- ignite,
- ignition,
- illuminate,
- illumine,
- impress,
- imprint,
- incandesce,
- incise,
- incision,
- indent,
- indentation,
- index,
- index finger,
- inferno,
- ingle,
- irruption,
- jag,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jot,
- kerf,
- kindle,
- knurl,
- lambent flame,
- lead,
- lentigo,
- light,
- line,
- lubber line,
- luster,
- machicolate,
- macula,
- make a mark,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- marking,
- marshfire,
- milepost,
- mill,
- minute hand,
- mole,
- mottle,
- needle,
- nevus,
- nick,
- nock,
- notch,
- open fire,
- outbreak,
- outburst,
- oxidate,
- oxidize,
- pant,
- parch,
- paroxysm,
- patch,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- picot,
- pink,
- point,
- pointer,
- polka dot,
- prairie fire,
- prick,
- print,
- proclaim,
- promulgate,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- pyre,
- pyrolyze,
- radiance,
- radiancy,
- radiant splendor,
- radiate,
- radiate heat,
- raging fire,
- refulgence,
- refulgency,
- resplendence,
- resplendency,
- riddle,
- roast,
- scald,
- scallop,
- scar,
- scarification,
- scarify,
- scintillate,
- scorch,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- sea of flames,
- seal,
- seam,
- sear,
- seethe,
- seizure,
- send out rays,
- serrate,
- sheet of fire,
- shell,
- shimmer with heat,
- shine,
- shine brightly,
- shoot,
- shoot out rays,
- shout,
- signal beacon,
- signboard,
- signpost,
- simmer,
- singe,
- slash,
- smolder,
- smother,
- smudge fire,
- solar flare,
- solar prominence,
- solder,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- spasm,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- splendor,
- splotch,
- spot,
- spunk up,
- stain,
- stamp,
- steam,
- stew,
- stifle,
- stigma,
- stigmatize,
- storm,
- strawberry mark,
- streak,
- streaming light,
- striate,
- stripe,
- suffocate,
- sweat,
- swelter,
- swinge,
- take,
- take fire,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- tempest,
- three-alarm fire,
- thunder,
- thunder forth,
- tick,
- tick off,
- tittle,
- toast,
- tooth,
- tornado,
- torrefy,
- trace,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth,
- two-alarm fire,
- underline,
- underscore,
- upheaval,
- Vandyke,
- vesicate,
- vividness,
- vulcanize,
- watch fire,
- watermark,
- weld,
- whirlwind,
- wildfire,
- witch fire