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   Blaze (blāz), n. [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.]
   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.
   
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   2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, “to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun”.
   
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   O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.
   
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   3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.  “Fierce blaze of riot.”  “His blaze of wrath.”  Shak.
   
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   For what is glory but the blaze of fame? Milton.
   
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   4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
   
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   5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
   
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   Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton.
   
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   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.
   
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   ☞ 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.
   
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   Syn. -- Blaze, Flame.  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.
   
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   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”.
   
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   2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
   
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   And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth.
   
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   3. To be resplendent.  Macaulay.
   
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   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.]
   
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   Blaze, v. t.
   1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
   
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   I found my way by the blazed trees. Hoffman.
   
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   2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, “to blaze a line or path”.
   
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   Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.
   
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   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.
   
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   On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok.
   
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   To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.
   
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   2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.]  Peacham.
   
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