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blaze¹
- /bleɪz/
Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”).
Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).
noun blazes
- 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
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat. They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality. his blaze of wrath
- A hand consisting of five face cards.
blaze²
- /bleɪz/
Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.
verb blazes · blazing · blazed
- To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. The campfire blazed merrily.
- To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame. And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
- To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- To set in a blaze; burn.
- To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- 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.
- To smoke marijuana. I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing
blaze³
- /bleɪz/
Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
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A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.
noun blazes
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face. The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
- 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.
- A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
verb blazes · blazing · blazed
- To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- 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.
- To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes. The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
- To mark off or stake a claim to land. He blazed his claim on the land.
- To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example. Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.
blaze⁴
- /bleɪz/
Rhymes with -eɪz
Where it comes from
From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.
verb blazes · blazing · blazed
- To blow, as from a trumpet.
- To publish; announce publicly.
- To disclose; bewray; defame.
- 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.
noun blazes
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
Blaze⁵
Where it comes from
Variant of Blaise.
proper noun
- A male given name from Latin.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
