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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



... cannot be called by any better name—is built of logs of wood cut down on purpose and put together as rudely as possible. It is only five feet high, and the roof is covered with boards. There is a great blazing fire kept up day and night, for the frost is intense, and the provisions have to be kept in a deep place made in the ground under the cabin. The smoke of the fire goes out through a hole in the roof, and the floor is strewn with branches ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... a big man in that part of the state—was a different proposition from killing a stranger like Doctor Kirby. The sense of what it would mean to kill Colonel Buckner was sinking into 'em, and showing on their faces. And no one could look at him standing there, with his determination blazing out of him, and not understand that unless they did kill him as well as Doctor Kirby he'd do ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis
... it that a new blazing spheroid, hitherto unknown to astronomy, now appeared suddenly in the firmament, though it were but to lose itself immediately ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... flown afar, up hills of endless light, through blazing corridors of suns, where worlds do swing of good and gentle men, of women strong and free—far from the cozenage, black hypocrisy, and chaste prostitution of this shameful speck ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois
... Aucherit, grant that I may come forth from the underworld to see Ra's blazing orb. O thou conductor of shades, let me have a fair path to the underworld and a sure arrival. May I be defended against all opposing powers. May the cycle of gods listen to me and ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various


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