blaze

noun

1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

   “Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…].”

2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.

   “They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.”

   “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!”

3. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
4. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.

   “his blaze of wrath”

   “For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”

5. A hand consisting of five face cards.
6. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.

   “The palomino had a white blaze on its face.”

7. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

   “The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.”

8. A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
9. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

verb

1. (intransitive)To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.

   “The campfire blazed merrily.”

2. (intransitive)To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.

   “And far and wide the icy summit blaze.”

   “Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.”

3. (intransitive, poetic)To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
4. (rare, transitive)To set in a blaze; burn.
5. (transitive)To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
6. (figuratively)To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.

   ““I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl.”

7. (slang)To smoke marijuana.

   “I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing”

   “Fam, I don’t blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I’m like mm, kill it”

8. (transitive)To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
9. (transitive)To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).

   “They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart’s tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees “blazed” and marked “S.,” as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration.”

   “We drew them up, therefore, and concealed them among the bushes, blazing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again.”

10. (transitive)To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.

    “The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.”

11. (transitive)To mark off or stake a claim to land.

    “He blazed his claim on the land.”

12. (figuratively, transitive)To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.

    “Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.”

13. (transitive)To blow, as from a trumpet.
14. (transitive)To publish; announce publicly.
15. (transitive)To disclose; bewray; defame.
16. (transitive)To blazon.

    “And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.”

    “[...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.”

    “Beinge thus blazed: Henzell On a ffeild Gules, beareth Three Acornes Slipped Or; Two and One.”

name

1. A male given name from Latin.
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.