O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!
Milton.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
Milton.

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.

* 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.

And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
Wordsworth.

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.]

I found my way by the blazed trees.
Hoffman.

Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others.
Nott.

On charitable lists he blazed his name.
Pollok.

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.
Pope.