Blaze
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. i.) To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
(2): (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
(3): (v. i.) To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
(4): (v. i.) To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
(5): (v. i.) To blazon.
(6): (n.) Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
(7): (v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
(8): (v. t.) To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
(9): (v. i.) To be resplendent.
(10): (n.) A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
(11): (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
(12): (n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
King James Dictionary [2]
Blaze n. Eng.to blush.
1. Flame the stream of light and heat from any body when burning, proceeding from the combustion of inflammable gas. 2. Publication wide diffusion of report. In this sense, we observe the radical sense of dilatation, as well as that of light. 3. A white spot on the forehead or face of a horse, descending nearly to the nose. 4. Light expanded light as the blaze of day. 5. Noise agitation tumult.
BLAZE, To flame as, the fire blazes.
1. To send forth or show a bright and expanded light.
The third fair morn now blazed upon the main.
2. To be conspicuous.
BLAZE, To make public far and wide.
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
1. To blazon. Not used. See Blazon. 2. To set a white mark on a tree, by paring off a part of the bark.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
blāz ("to publish"): Found only in the King James Version of Mark 1:45 , for Greek diaphēmı́zein , translated by the Revised Version (British and American) "spread abroad," as in Matthew 9:31; Matthew 28:15 .
