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BLAZE (A.-S. blaese, a torch)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLAZE (A.-S. blaese, a See also:torch)  , a See also:fire or See also:bright See also:flame; more nearly akin to the Ger. bless, See also:pale or shining See also:white, is the use of the word for the white See also:mark on the See also:face of a See also:horse or cow, and the See also:American use for a mark made on a See also:tree by cutting off a piece of the bark . The word " to See also:blaze," in the sense of to See also:noise abroad, comes from the A.-S. blaesan, to See also:blow, cf. the Ger. blasen; in sense, if not in origin, it is confused with " See also:blazon " in See also:heraldry .

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