BLAZE, bl[=a]z, _n._ a rush of light or of flame: a bursting out or active
display: a white spot on the face of a horse or ox: a mark made on a tree
by cutting off a strip of bark to mark a track or a boundary.--_v.i._ to
burn with a flame: to throw out light.--_n._ BLAZ'ER, a cricket or golf
jacket of bright colour.--BLAZES, from the fires of hell, in imprecations
like TO BLAZES; also LIKE BLAZES = with fury.--TO BLAZE A TREE, to make a
white mark by cutting off a piece of the bark. [A.S. _blæse_, a torch, from
root of BLOW.]
BLAZE, bl[=a]z, Blazon, bl[=a]'zn, _v.t._ to proclaim, to spread
abroad.--_n._ BLAZ'ER (_Spens._), one who spreads abroad or proclaims.
[Same as BLARE; BLAZON is the M. E. _blasen_, with the _n_ retained.]
BLAZON, bl[=a]'zn, _v.t._ to make public: to display: to draw or to explain
in proper terms the figures, &c., in armorial bearings.--_n._ the science
or rules of coats-of-arms.--_ns._ BLAZ'ONER, one who blazons: a herald: a
slanderer; BLAZ'ONRY, the art of drawing or of deciphering coats-of-arms:
heraldry. [Fr. _blason_, a coat-of-arms, from root of BLAZE.]
BLEACH, bl[=e]ch, _v.t._ to make pale or white: to whiten, as textile
fabrics.--_v.i._ to grow white.--_ns._ BLEACH'ER, one who bleaches, or that
which bleaches; BLEACH'ERY, a place for bleaching; BLEACH'-FIELD, a place
for bleaching cloth: a bleacher's office or works; BLEACH'ING, the process
of whitening or decolourising cloth; BLEACH'ING-GREEN, a green for
bleaching clothes on; BLEACH'ING-POW'DER, chloride of lime. [A.S.
_bl['æ]can_, from root of BLEAK.]
BLEAK, bl[=e]k, _adj._ colourless: dull and cheerless: cold,
unsheltered.--_adv._ BLEAK'LY.--_n._ BLEAK'NESS. [A.S. _blæc_, _blâc_,
pale, shining; a different word from _blac_ (without accent), black. The
root is _blican_, to shine.]
BLEAK, bl[=e]k, _n._ a small white river-fish.
BLEAR, bl[=e]r, _adj._ (as in BLEAR-EYED, bl[=e]r'-[=i]d) sore or inflamed:
dim or blurred with inflammation. [Low Ger. _bleer-oged_, 'blear-eyed.']
BLEAT, bl[=e]t, _v.i._ to cry as a sheep.--_n._ the cry of a sheep, any
similar cry, even of the human voice.--_n._ BLEAT'ING, the cry of a sheep.
[A.S. _bl['æ]tan_; L. _bal[=a]re_, Gr. _bl[=e]ch[=e]_, a bleating; root
_bla-_; formed from the sound.]
BLEB, bleb, _n._ a transparent blister of the cuticle: a bubble, as in
water. [See BULB.]
BLED, bled, _pa.t._ and _pa.p._ of BLEED.