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Blazing   /blˈeɪzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Blaze  v. t.  
1.
To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees."
2.
To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. "Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others."


Blaze  v. t.  
1.
To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. "On charitable lists he blazed his name." "To blaze those virtues which the good would hide."
2.
(Her.) To blazon. (Obs.)


Blaze  v. i.  (past & past part. blazed; pres. part. blazing)  
1.
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
2.
To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. "And far and wide the icy summit blazed."
3.
To be resplendent.
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.)


adjective
Blazing  adj.  Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
Blazing star.
(a)
A comet. (Obs.)
(b)
A brilliant center of attraction.
(c)
(Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamaelirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.





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"Blazing" Quotes from Famous Books



... North, the wild sky is blazing; Islands of opal float on silver seas; Swift splendors kindle, barbaric, amazing; Pale ports of amber, golden argosies. Ringed all around us the proud peaks are glowing; Fierce chiefs in council, their wigwam the sky; Far, far below ...
— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service
... burnt-wood, iron-rock region of Lake Superior, on the lonely wind-swept prairies, at the foothills where each night's sunset etched the long shadows of the mountain peaks in somber replica across the plains, in the forested solitude of the tumultuous Rockies was the ragged vanguard of empire blazing a path through the wilderness, voyageur and burnt-wood runner, trapper, and explorer, pushing across the hinterlands of earth's ends from prairie to ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut
... storm-beaten party sat before a blazing fire in the cottage of the German peasant. Their clothing was dry, and they were quite comfortable. The only thing that disturbed them was the anxiety of their friends at Friedrichshafen. Possibly something else ...
— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic
... Peakslow, cocking his gun, pressed upon him with loud threats and blazing eyes. The angry man was striding through the gap, when Betterson stepped before him, courteous, stately, with a polite but ...
— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge
... the great monarch, with his red heels and his golden snuff-box and his towering periwig, come out among his courtiers, or in some elaborate grotto applaud a ballet by Moliere. When night fell there would be dancing and music in the gallery blazing with a thousand looking-glasses, or masquerades and feasting in the gardens, with the torches throwing strange shadows among the trees trimmed into artificial figures, and gay lords and proud ladies ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey


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