*laze*

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. ]

n. Same as Chalaza. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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. 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 ]

v. t. See Emblaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lazed p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing. ] [ See Lazy. ] To be lazy or idle. [ Colloq. ] Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Ceramics) (a) Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. (b) Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + glaze. ] To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window. [ 1913 Webster ]