blazen

present singular third person blazens · participle present blazening · participle past blazened · past blazened

1. transitiveTo set ablaze

   An active rival, who let no opportunity escape to enhance his own interest to the detriment of ours, was unsparing in his efforts to blazen his own glories, and prevent the Eastern world from discovering anything valuable beyond the Mississippi river.

   1867, Biennial Report, page 252

2. intransitiveTo be ablaze

   We were on the left center, Mosleys battery on our left, brave men melting before the blazening cannon and chargeing^([sic]) Infantry one volley after another and dead men were in piles.

   1970, Levi Lamoni Wight, The reminiscences and Civil War letters of Levi Lamoni Wight