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blaze

noun

  1. burn brightly
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verb

  1. burn brightly
  2. take on a trail like fire
L20955 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bleɪz/

name

Etymology: Variant of Blaise.

  1. A male given name from Latin.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.

  1. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.

  1. To blow, as from a trumpet.
  2. To publish; announce publicly.
  3. To disclose; bewray; defame.
  4. To blazon.

    And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.

    [...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.