Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Blaze \Blaze\ (bl[=a]z), n. [OE. blase, AS. bl[ae]se, 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.] 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}.

   Usage: 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 \Blaze\, v. t. [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.) To blazon. [Obs.] --Peacham.

Blaze \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 \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.

Source : WordNet®

blaze
     v 1: shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the
          atmosphere"
     2: shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men"
        [syn: {blaze away}]
     3: burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause
        a pine to blaze"
     4: move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out
        into space" [syn: {blaze out}]
     5: indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"

blaze
     n 1: a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread
          rapidly" [syn: {blazing}]
     2: a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to
        blazes" [syn: {hell}]
     3: noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" [syn: {hell}]
     4: great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a
        blaze of color" [syn: {glare}, {brilliance}]
     5: a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the
        trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its
        eyes"

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

BLAZE
     
        A {single assignment} language for {parallel processing}.
     
        ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific
        Programming", P. Mehrotra  et al, J
        Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)].