▪ I. blazed, ppl. a.1 rare.
[f. blaze v.1]
Set in flames; fig. inflamed.
| 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creat. xi. §i. 97 Or Orall and Vocall [Organs], bleared and blazed from the Hell-inflamed tongue. |
▪ II. blazed, ppl. a.2
[f. blaze v.2]
Published, made famous.
| 1590 Spenser Muiopotmos 266 Her blazed fame. 1671 Milton Samson 528 The sons of Anak, famous now and blazed. |
▪ III. blazed, ppl. a.3
(bleɪzd)
[f. blaze n.2 and v.3]
1. Having a blaze or white mark on the face.
| 1685 Lond. Gaz. No. 2030/4 A Brown bay Gelding..blaz'd down his Face. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Horse, He is prized far That is Cole-black, and blazed with a Star. 1787 Washington Diaries (1925) III. 155 A sorrel mare, blazed face, off hind foot white. 1869 Overland Monthly III. 126, I had seen..an old gray mare, considerably flea-bitten, with a blazed face and a docked tail. |
2. U.S. Of trees: Marked with white by cutting off a patch of the bark. Of a path or boundary line: Indicated by blazed trees.
| 1737 Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 68 A line of blazed trees, (that is, marked by cutting off part of the bark). 1822 J. Flint Lett. Amer. 154 To follow the blazed lines marked out by the surveyor. 1883 B. Harte Carquinez viii. 176 At right angles with the ‘blazed’ tree. |