blazen.[OE. blase, AS. blse, blase; akin to OHG. blass whitish, G. blass pale, MHG. blas torch, Icel. blys torch; perh. fr. the same root as E. blast. Cf. Blast, Blush, Blink.]1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.(Croly.)2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.()O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! (Milton.)3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.(Shak.)For what is glory but the blaze of fame? (Milton.)[Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.]4. A white spot on the forehead of a horse.()5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.()Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. (Carlton.)In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] The horses did along like blazes tear. Poem in Essex dialect.()()()v. i.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. (Wordsworth.)3. To be resplendent.(Macaulay.)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.]()v. t.1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.()I found my way by the blazed trees. (Hoffman.)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. (Nott.)v. t.[OE. blasen to blow; perh. confused with blast and blaze a flame, OE. blase. Cf. Blaze, v. i., and see Blast.]1. To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.()On charitable lists he blazed his name. (Pollok.)To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. (Pope.)2. (Her.) To blazon.(Peacham.)