[f. BLAZE sb.2 and v.3]
1. Having a blaze or white mark on the face.
1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2030/4. A Brown bay Gelding … blaz’d down his Face.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Horse, He is prized far That is Cole-black, and blazed with a Star.
2. U.S. Of trees: Marked with white by cutting off a patch of the bark. Of a path or boundary line: Indicated by blazed trees.
1737. Wesley, Wks. (1872), I. 68. A line of blazed trees, (that is, marked by cutting off part of the bark).
1822. J. Flint, Lett. Amer., 154. To follow the blazed lines marked out by the surveyor.
1883. Bret Harte, Carquinez, viii. 176. At right angles with the ‘blazed’ tree.
