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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLA'ZING, ppr. Flaming; publishing far and wide.
BLA'ZING, a. Emitting flame, or light; as a blazing star.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
2: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing, conspicuous] n
1: a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1567 of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intensity <blazing eyes> <a blazing fastball> <blazing gunfire> • blazingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blazing Blaz"ing, a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. --Sir W. Scott. Blazing star. (a) A comet. [Obs.] (b) A brilliant center of attraction. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Cham[ae]lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Blazing sun or blazing hot weather is very hot. Quite a few people were eating outside in the blazing sun. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, candent, candescent, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, comburent, combustion, concremation, conflagrant, cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, fervent, fervid, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, incineration, inflamed, kindled, live, living, meteoric, on fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate, perfervid, pyrolysis, red-hot, reeking, refining, scintillant, scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, singeing, smelting, smoking, smoldering, sparking, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, unextinguished, unquenched, vesication