Meaning of Blaze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
2. A male given name from Latin.
3. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
4. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
6. A surname originating as a patronymic.
7. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
8. A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.
9. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
10. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
11. A hand consisting of five face cards.

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Examples

“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 kindling on the coals,[…].”

“They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.”

“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!”

“his blaze of wrath”

“For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”

“The palomino had a white blaze on its face.”

“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.”

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