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n. [ OE. blase, AS. blæse, 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. “To heaven the blaze uprolled.” Croly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. “Fierce blaze of riot.” “His blaze of wrath.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

For what is glory but the blaze of fame? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light. ] A white spot on the forehead of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes. Neal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Blaze, Flame. A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blazed p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing. ] 1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be resplendent. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

I found my way by the blazed trees. Hoffman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. [ 1913 Webster ]

Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. [ 1913 Webster ]

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) To blazon. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. “Blazers of crime.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A light jacket, usually of wool or silk and of a bright color, for wear at tennis, cricket, or other sport. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brasier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blazing star. (a) A comet. [ Obs. ] (b) A brilliant center of attraction. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.
Syn. -- blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, snakeroot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. blason, blasoun, shield, fr. F. blason coat of arms, OF. shield, from the root of AS. blæse blaze, i. e., luster, splendor, MHG. blas torch See Blaze, n. ] 1. A shield. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,
Do give thee fivefold blazon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blazoned p. pr. & vb. n. Blazoning ] [ From blazon, n.; confused with 4th blaze: cf. F. blasonner. ] 1. To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thyself thou blazon'st. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

To blazon his own worthless name. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coat of , arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shine; to be conspicuous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Same as Blazon, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The principles of blazonry. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Artistic representation or display. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. disinclined to work or exertion.
Syn. -- do-nothing(prenominal), faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, shiftless, slothful, workshy, work-shy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. E. Chalazas, L. Chalazæ [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; hail, pimple. ] 1. (Bot.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the chalaza. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chalaza. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Chalaza + -ferous. ] Having or bearing chalazas. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; dim. of &unr_; hail, pimple. ] (Med.) A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chalaza + -gamy, as in polygamy. ] (Bot.) A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micropyle. -- Chal`a*zo*gam"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. t. To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emblazed p. pr. & vb. n. Emblazing. ] [ Pref. em- + 1st blaze. ] 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. [ 1913 Webster ]

No weeping orphan saw his father's stores
Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind,
With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emblazoned p. pr. & vb. n. Emblazoning. ] [ Pref. em- + blazon. Cf. Emblaze. ] 1. To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An emblazoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Emblazonries The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Glazed p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing. ] [ OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Cookery) To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored. [ PJC ]

v. i. To become glazed of glassy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cookery) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. fitted or covered with glass; as, a glassed wall. Opposite of unglazed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adj. 1. Same as glassed.
Syn. -- glassed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Having a shiny surface or coating; as, glazed fabrics; glazed doughnuts. [ Narrower terms: glassy, vitreous, vitrified; glossy, calendered; icy ; glacé ] unglazed
Syn. -- shiny. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Lacking liveliness; -- used of eyes; as, a glazed look.
Syn. -- glassy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ AS. glæsen. ] Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Glaze. ] One whose business is to set glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Emblaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Emblazon. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Min.) An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color; also called lapis. Same as Lazuli, which see. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20. ] A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) Typhus fever. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ F. lazaret, or It. lazzeretto, fr. Lazarus. See Lazar. ] 1. A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (Pronounced by seamen A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. (R. C. Ch.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Lazzaroni. [ 1913 Webster ]