blaze

1. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.Examples: "The campfire blazed merrily."intransitive

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

3. (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).intransitivepoetic

4. (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.raretransitive

5. (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.transitive

6. (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.Examples: "“I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl."figuratively

1. (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.

1. (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).transitive

2. (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).Examples: "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."transitive

3. (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.Examples: "The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth."transitive

4. (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.Examples: "He blazed his claim on the land."transitive

5. (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.Examples: "Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us."figurativelytransitive

1. (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.transitive

2. (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.transitive

3. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.transitive

4. (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.Examples: "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."transitive