BLAZES
Noun
blazes
plural of blaze
Noun
blazes pl (plural only)
(euphemistic) hell
Usage notes
• For the sense of 'hell', a very common intensifier is 'blue'.
Verb
blazes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blaze
Adverb
blazes (not comparable)
hellishly, extremely
Interjection
blazes
Expression of frustration, shock, or both.
Source: Wiktionary
BLAZE
Blaze (blaz), n. Etym: [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.
2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter
from the blaze of the sun.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.
3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a
brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath."
Shak.
For what is glory but the blaze of fame Milton.
4. [Cf. D. bles; akin to E. blaze light.]
Definition: A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually
as a surveyor's mark.
Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a
legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road.
Carlton.
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.
Note: 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.
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.
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.
2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a
blaze.
And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth.
3. To be resplendent. Macaulay. 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.]
Blaze, v. t.
1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
I found my way by the blazed trees. Hoffman.
2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to
blaze a line or path.
Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the
road to be traveled by others. Nott.
Blaze, v. t. Etym: [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.
On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok.
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.
2. (Her.)
Definition: To blazon. [Obs.] Peacham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition