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▪ I. blazing, vbl. n.1|ˈbleɪzɪŋ|
Also 5 blasynge.
[f. blaze v.1 + -ing1.]
a. A flaming, burning.
b. Shining, splendour.
c1440Promp. Parv. 38 Blasynge or flamynge of fyre, flammacio. 1563Homilies ii. Excess. Appar. (1859) 316 The more thou garnish thy selfe with these outward blazings. 1639Fuller Holy War i. ii. (1840) 2 A fading comet, whose blazing portended the ruin of that nation. 1859G. Wilson E. Forbes iv. 99 No needless blazings of phosphorus.
▪ II. ˈblazing, vbl. n.2
[f. blaze v.2 + -ing1.]
1. a. Proclaiming or ‘trumpeting.’ b. Boasting.
1563Homilies ii. Idolatry (1859) 237 Blasphemous bold blasing of manifest Idolatry. 1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. 7 The blazing of Womens slender praises. 1628Feltham Resolves i. lxxx. (1647) 248 The blazings of the proud will goe out in a stench and smoke.
†2. = blazoning. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 38 Blasynge of armys, descripcio. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. A j, Folowyth the Blasyng of all maner armys. 1530Palsgr. 165 Blason, a blasyng or discryvyng of ons armes. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. x. 56 Some painted picture or blasing of armes.
▪ III. ˈblazing, vbl. n.3
[f. blaze v.3]
The marking of trees by chipping off a patch of the bark.
1818Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 273 We soon lost all appearance of the track..and of the ‘blazing’ of the trees.
▪ IV. ˈblazing, ppl. a.1
In northern ME. blesand; for other forms see the vb.
[f. blaze v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Flaming with force.
c1400Rom. Rose 3706 Of brennynge fyre a blasyng bronde. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. ix. 103 The blesand torchys schayn. 1667Milton P.L. i. 728 Blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 340 The sight of the blazing dwellings.
fig.1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom xxxiii. 299 She..fixed a glance blazing with rage and scorn on the driver.
2. a. Shining vehemently; bright-coloured, glaring.
1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. VI. 297 Gay blasynge cloþes. 1425Ord. Whittington's Alms-ho. in Entick London IV. 354 That the overcloathing..be dark and brown of colour, and not staring ne blaising. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair i, Horses in blazing harness. 1855Dickens Dorrit i, A blazing sun upon a fierce August day.
b. fig.
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 134 The fame thereof is..above all other most blasing and glorious. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 8 Her bright blazing beautie.
3. Venery. Of scent: Very strong; as opposed to a cold scent, i.e. a weak one.
1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. ii. i. §2. 142 They..can hunt a cold scent, and yet with a blazing one they run breast high.
4. Used as a substitute for a profane epithet.
1888Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1890) 19 Once I said, ‘What's the blazing hurry, Major?’ 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 66 You have the blazing cheek to keep me lying here in the filthy muck.
▪ V. ˈblazing, ppl. a.2
[f. blaze v.2 + -ing2.]
†1. Blowing. Obs.
1535Coverdale Wisdom xvii. 18 Whether it were a blasynge wynde, or a swete song of y⊇ byrdes.
†b. Boastful (? ‘blowing their own trumpet’).
1533Tindale Answ. to More's Dial. Wks. III. 107 The blasing hypocrites. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. 2 Cor. xii. 12 Let them never so muche with their blasyng wordes boaste themselves. |