blaze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A brilliant burst of fire; a flame.
2. n. A destructive fire.
3. n. A bright or steady light or glare: the blaze of the desert sun.
4. n. A brilliant, striking display: flowers that were a blaze of color.
5. n. A sudden outburst, as of emotion: a blaze of anger.
6. n. Used as an intensive: Where in blazes are my keys?
7. v. To burn with a bright flame.
8. v. To shine brightly.
9. v. To be resplendent: a garden blazing with flowers.
10. v. To flare up suddenly: My neighbor's temper blazed.
11. v. To shoot rapidly and continuously: Machine guns blazed.
12. v. To shine or be resplendent with: eyes that blazed hatred.
13. n. A white or light-colored spot or stripe on the face of an animal, such as a horse.
14. n. A mark cut or painted on a tree to indicate a trail.
15. v. To mark (a tree) with or as if with blazes.
16. v. To indicate (a trail) by marking trees with blazes.
17. v. To make known publicly; proclaim: Headlines blazed the news.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A torch; a fire-brand.
2. n. A flame; a flaming fire; a confiagration.
3. n. Figuratively, brilliant sunlight; effulgence; brilliance: as, the blaze of day.
4. n. A sudden kindling up or bursting out, as of fire, passion, etc.; an active or violent display; wide diffusion.
5. n. 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. To burst into flame; burn with a bright flame or fervent heat; flame: either literally or figuratively.
7. To send forth a bright light; shine like flame or fire: as, a blazing diamond.
8. To be conspicuous; shine brightly with the brilliancy of talents, heroic deeds, etc.
9. To go out with a fiare.
10. To break out with passion or excitement; speak or act violently.
11. To set in a blaze.
12. To temper (steel) by covering it while hot with tallow or oil, which is then burned off.
13. To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly.
14. To blow, as from a trumpet.
15. Hence To publish; make well known; announce in a public manner.
16. To disclose; betray; defame.
17. In heraldry, to blazon. See blazon, n., 1 and 2.
18. n. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
19. n. A white spot on the face of a horse, cow, ox, etc. See cut under blesbok.
20. n. 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. A local English name of the bleak.
22. To mark with a white spot on the face, as a horse: only in the perfect participle blazed.
23. 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. 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. A pimple.
26. n. Same as brash, 4 .
27. Irregular spelling of blaes, plural of blae. See blae, n.
28. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
2. n. The lighter coloured (normally white) markings on a horse's face.
3. n. A high-visibility orange colour with a Hex value of FF6600 and RGB of 255,102,0, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
4. v. intransitive To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light.
5. v. intransitive To shine like a flame.
6. v. transitive To make a thing shine like a flame.
7. v. transitive To mark or cut (a route, especially through vegetation), or figuratively, to set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge.
8. v. slang To smoke marijuana.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
2. n. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
3. n. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
4. n. A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
5. n. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
6. v. To shine with flame; to glow with flame.
7. v. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
8. v. To be resplendent.
9. v. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
10. v. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees.
11. v. To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
12. v. (Her.), obsolete To blazon.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. burn brightly and intensely
2. v. indicate by marking trees with blazes
3. n. a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
4. n. noisy and unrestrained mischief
5. n. a strong flame that burns brightly
6. n. a light-colored marking
7. n. a cause of difficulty and suffering
8. v. shine brightly and intensively
9. v. move rapidly and as if blazing
10. v. shoot rapidly and repeatedly