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To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [Colloq.]

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow.

por emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly.

One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.

Same as Chalaza.

To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

ng embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

See Emblaze.

Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. (b) Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.

Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting.

To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.

See White-face.

foot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago.…

or the world; here and there; widely. He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

A signal fire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott.