Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To become slightly sour, as milk.
  • A Scotch form of blaze.

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  • verb Scotland To blaze.

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Examples

  • An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o droid surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o mettalic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o droid surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o mettalic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel.

    Links purge Ray Girvan 2004

  • "Burn," says Ronny -- "burn; they'll hiv a bleeze ye'll see for twenty miles -- we're bate, Dan."

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • He'd holler an 'holler, an' 'bout de time you think he bleeze ter be 'shame' er hollerin 'so much, he'd up an' holler 'gi'n.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • "I think I would too," said he, "for your een have started the bleeze a'ready, and I'm dootin 'it'll finish in brimstane."

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • I was seized with a severe shaking of the knees and a flapping at the heart, when, through the garret window, I saw the signal posts were in a bleeze, and that the French had landed.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • He showed me the chinks in the sides through which the kirk seemed “all in a bleeze,” and he pointed out the identical place on the wall where Old Nick was presiding over the midnight revels of the beldames when ” “Louder and louder the piper blew,

    Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902

  • Auchindoun was in a bleeze, an hour before the dawning

    Burning of Auchindoun 1898

  • Wun da nex 'day mornin' come, da Affiky oomans say 'e bleeze fer hab dem aig.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Dey start back, dey did, un w'en dey git four er five mile out er town, hit come 'cross Brer Fox min 'dat he done come away un lef' a plug er terbacker in de sto ', en he say he bleeze ter go back atter it.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

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