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Blaspheme (blăsfēm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasphemed (-fēmf); p. pr. & vb. n. Blaspheming.] [OE. blasfemēn, L. blasphemare, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n: cf. F. blasphémer. See , v.] 1. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
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So Dagon shall be magnified, and God,
Besides whom is no god, compared with idols,
Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.
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How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name? Dr. W. Beveridge.
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2. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
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You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak.
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Those who from our labors heap their board,
Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.
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Blaspheme, v. i. To utter blasphemy.
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He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.
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Blasphemer (�), n. One who blasphemes.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God ? Pope.
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Blasphemous (�), a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. �.] Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. “Blasphemous publications.” Porteus.
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Nor from the Holy One of Heaven
Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.
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☞ Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example.
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Blasphemously, adv. In a blasphemous manner.
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Blasphemy (�), n. [L. blasphemia, Gr. �: cf. OF. blasphemie.] 1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
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☞ When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.
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2. Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
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Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.
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-blast (�). [Gr. blastos sprout, shoot.] A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
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Blast (blȧst), n. [AS. blǣst a puff of wind, a blowing; akin to Icel. blāstr, OHG. blāst, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blāsa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. blēsan (in comp.); all prob. from the same root as E. blow. See to eject air.] 1. A violent gust of wind.
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And see where surly Winter passes off,
Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.
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2. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
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☞ The terms hot blast and cold blast are employed to designate whether the current is heated or not heated before entering the furnace. A blast furnace is said to be in blast while it is in operation, and out of blast when not in use.
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3. The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
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4. The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
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One blast upon his bugle horn
Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.
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The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.
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5. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
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By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9.
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Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast. Shak.
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6. The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose. “Large blasts are often used.” Tomlinson.
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7. A flatulent disease of sheep.
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Coloq. Blast furnace , a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure. -- Coloq. Blast hole , a hole in the bottom of a pump stock through which water enters. -- Coloq. Blast nozzle , a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice. -- Coloq. In full blast , in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See , n., 2. [Colloq.]
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Blast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blasting.] 1. To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
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Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.
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2. Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
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I'll cross it, though it blast me. Shak.
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Blasted with excess of light. T. Gray.
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3. To confound by a loud blast or din.
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Trumpeters,
With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak.
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4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
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Blast, v. i. 1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
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2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.]
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Toke his blake trumpe faste
And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
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Blasted (�), a. 1. Blighted; withered.
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Upon this blasted heath. Shak.
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2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.
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Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.
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3. Rent open by an explosive.
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The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.
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Blastema (�), n.; pl. Blastemata (�). [Gr. blasthma bud, sprout.] (Biol.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
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Blastemal (�), a. (Biol.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
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Blastematic (�), a. (Biol.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
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Blaster (�), n. One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
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Blastide (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout, fr. � to grow.] (Biol.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
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Blasting (�), n. 1. A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.
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2. The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
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Blast lamp. A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.
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Blastment (�), n. A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.
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Blastocarpous (�), a. [Gr. � sprout, germ + � fruit.] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.
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blastocoel, Blastocœle blastocoele (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + koi^los hollow.] (Biol.) The cavity inside a blastula; -- also called segmentation cavity.
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blastocoelic adj. of or pertaining to a blastocoel.
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Blastocyst (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + E. cyst.] (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.
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blastocyte n. an undifferentiated embryonic cell.
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Blastoderm (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + E. derm.] (Embryology) the early stage of an embryo after the first cleavages of the ovum; also, the layer of cells of which the early embryo is composed; specifically: (a) the early embryo developing from a blastodisc, after the blastocoel has formed. (b) in an insect embryo, the layer of cells that surrounds the internal mass of the yolk.
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{ Blastodermatic (�), Blastodermic (�), } a. Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
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blastodisc n. a disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.
Syn. -- germinal disc, germinal area.
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blastoff n. the launching of a rocket, especially of a spacecraft, under its own power.
Syn. -- rocket firing, rocket launching, shoot.
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blast off v. i. to begin ascending from the ground under rocket power; -- of a rocket.
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Blastogenesis (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + E. genesis.] (Biol.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
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Blastoid (�), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Blastoidea.
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Blastoidea (�), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. blastos sprout + -oid.] (Zoöl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
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Blastomere (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + -mere.] (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
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blastomycete n. any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; -- they may cause disease in humans and other animals.
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blastomycosis n. any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs.
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blastomycotic adj. of or pertaining to blastomycosis.
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{ Blastophoral (�), Blastophoric (�), } a. Relating to the blastophore.
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Blastophore (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + � to bear.] (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
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blastoporal blastoporic adj. of or pertaining to a blastopore.
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Blastopore (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + E. pore.] (Biol.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. [See Illust. of .] Balfour.
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Blastosphere (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout + E. sphere.] (Biol.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. [See Illust. of .]
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Blastostyle (�), n. [Gr. blastos sprout, bud + � a pillar.] (Zoöl.) In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See , and .
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Blast pipe (�). The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
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Blastula (�), n. [NL., dim. of Gr. blastos a sprout.] (Biol.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
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Blastule (�), n. (Biol.) Same as .
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Blasty (�), a. 1. Affected by blasts; gusty.
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2. Causing blast or injury. [Obs.] Boyle.
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Blat (�), v. i. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [Low]
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Blat, v. t. To utter inconsiderately. [Low]
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If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out. W. D. Howells.
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Blatancy (�), n. Blatant quality.
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Blatant (�), a. [Cf. .] Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. “Harsh and blatant tone.” R. H. Dana.
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A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser.
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Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.
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Blatantly, adv. In a blatant manner.
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blate v. to of sheep, goats, or calves.
Syn. -- bleat, blat, baa, cry plaintively.
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blate adj. bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly Scottish.
Syn. -- bashful, timid, sheepish.
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Blather (blă�ẽr), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Blathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Blathering.] [Written also blether.] [Icel. blaðra. Cf. .] To talk foolishly, or nonsensically, or concerning matters of no consequence. G. Eliot.
Syn. -- babble, smatter, blether, blither.
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Blather, n. [Written also blether.] Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. Hall Caine.
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Blatherskite (�), n. A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.
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Blatter (�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blattered (�).] [L. blaterare to babble: cf. F. blatérer to bleat.] To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] “The rain blattered.” Jeffrey.
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They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
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Blatteration (�), n. [L. blateratio a babbling.] Blattering.
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Blatterer (�), n. One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.
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Blattering, n. Senseless babble or boasting.
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Blatteroon (�), n. [L. blatero, -onis.] A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] “I hate such blatteroons.” Howell.
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Blaubok (�), n. [D. blauwbok.] (Zoöl.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under .
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Blay (�), n. [AS. bl�ge, fr. bl�c, bleak, white; akin to Icel. bleikja, OHG. bleicha, G. bleihe. See , n. & a.] (Zoöl.) A fish. See , n.
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Blaze (blāz), 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. , , .] 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.
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2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.
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3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. “Fierce blaze of riot.” “His blaze of wrath.” Shak.
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame? Milton.
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4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.] A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
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5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
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Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton.
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Coloq. In a blaze , on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. -- Coloq. Like blazes , furiously; rapidly. [Low] “The horses did along like blazes tear.” Poem in Essex dialect.
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☞ 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.
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Syn. -- , . 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.
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Blaze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blazed (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing.] 1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
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2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
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And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth.
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3. To be resplendent. Macaulay.
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Coloq. 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.]
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Blaze, v. t. 1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
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I found my way by the blazed trees. Hoffman.
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2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
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Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.
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Blaze, v. t. [OE. blasen to blow; perh. confused with blast and blaze a flame, OE. blase. Cf. , v. i., and see .] 1. To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
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On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok.
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To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.
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2. (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] Peacham.
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Blazer (�), n. One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. “Blazers of crime.” Spenser.
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Blazer (?), n. 1. Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
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2. A light jacket, usually of wool or silk and of a bright color, for wear at tennis, cricket, or other sport.
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3. The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brasier.
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Blazing, a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott.
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Coloq. 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.
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blazing-star 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.
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Blazon (�), 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 , n.] 1. A shield. [Obs.]
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2. An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
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Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.
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3. The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.
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4. Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.
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Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier.
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Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,
Do give thee fivefold blazon. Shak.
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Blazon, 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.
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Thyself thou blazon'st. Shak.
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There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. Trumbull.
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To blazon his own worthless name. Cowper.
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2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
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She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.
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3. (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.
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The coat of , arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. Addison.
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Blazon, v. i. To shine; to be conspicuous. [R.]
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Blazoner (�), n. One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.
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