[f. BLARE v. + -ING1.]
1. = BLARE sb.1
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 40. Bloryynge or wepynge, ploratus, fletus.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (1856), 118. That they [kyne] may not hear the rowtinge and blaringe one of another.
1855. Whitby Gloss., Blairing, bellowing, crying or squalling as a child.
1879. Jefferies, Wild Life in S. Co., 104. The blaring of trumpets, the tootling of pan-pipes.
2. fig. Clamor, noise, outcry.
1837. Fraser’s Mag., XVI. 129. No people … make such a blaring about apostasy, and such a clamour about consistency, as the Liberals.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iii. 158. What uproar and blaring he made in this world.
