blaze a trail
To show the way or proceed rapidly.
noun
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…].
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!
A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
his blaze of wrath
For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
A hand consisting of five face cards.
verb
To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
The campfire blazed merrily.
To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
To set in a blaze; burn.
To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
noun
The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.
A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.