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    Blaze , 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.”
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.]
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