Blaze

What “Blaze” means

Noun

1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
3. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
4. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
5. A hand consisting of five face cards.

Verb

1. To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
2. To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
3. To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
4. To set in a blaze; burn.
5. To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.

Noun

1. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
2. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
3. A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.

Verb

1. To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
2. To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
3. To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
4. To mark off or stake a claim to land.
5. To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).

From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.

] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.

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