blazer

noun

1. 1

   informalA thing which blazes or shines brightly. A very bright or hot day.

   The day comes—a blazer, cloudless blue, not a breath stirring the pine-branches; […]

2. 2

   A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.

   [I]t was evident to him that Mrs. Nichols in branching out did not intend to banish the Welsh rarebit, the oysters in cream, and other delicacies which Tom prided himself on being able to prepare on a blazer so skilfully that the mouths of his friends never ceased to water until the alcohol-lamp went hopelessly out.

3. 3

   A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.

   From the neighbouring colleries the miners had come in crowds—men, women, and children. The women and children were many of them armed with "blazers" and tin-cans, which they used as cymbals, to the accompaniment of groans, yells, and howls directed against the motley gang of evictors.

4. 4

   obsoleteA thing which blazes or shines brightly. A comet.

5. 5

   figurativeA tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.

6. 6

   figurativeA tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals. Any suit-style jacket for women.

7. 7

   figurativeA tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals. An older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.

8. 8

   figurativeA person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.

   a blazer of paths

   a blazer of pathways

   […] I must say that I came to regard him as certainly one of the greatest leaders in education that we have ever had in this country. He not only was a very able man, a blazer of pathways, but he was a great orator.

   [F]reedom, a blazer of paths to essentials. Musing about the lack of luggage and planning on their trip, she reflects: [blockquote] After the cumbrances of a lifetime I found this pared simplicity singularly pleasing.

9. 9

   figurativeOften in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle.

   The disfigurement was so plainly obvious that it seemed evident the rustlers planned to run a blazer on us by undertaking to cut them [cattle] on the spring round-up under cover of a gun bluff.

   "What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."

   Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, [John Horton] Slaughter had run him.

   These folks don't take kindly to no brash stranger comin' in here tryin' to run a blazer on 'em.

10. 10

    figurativeSomeone or something that draws attention.

    T' other gal is likely enough, but the mother's a blazer! Whoever marries Emmy, had better look out for his ears. The mill-clack is nothing to the old woman's tongue.

11. 11

    figurativeOne who blazes (“smokes marijuana”); a stoner.

noun

1. 1

   archaicOne who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.

   VVithin the Barbican a Porter ſate, / Day and night duely keeping vvatch and vvard, / Nor vvight, nor vvord mote paſſe out of the gate, / But in good order, and vvith devv regard; / Vtterers of ſecrets he from thence debard, / Bablers of folly, and blazers of cryme.

   To have their blazers abroad to ſee out their virtues, and to prepare their friends in every Province.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteSynonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).

   But now it is tyme to come to the auncient Poets, which were alſo Philoſophers, and who by their feynings opened the gap to the pluralitie of Gods. Amang theſe the firſt that wee méete with is Orpheus, whom Iuſtine calleth the firſt Author of them, the firſt giuer of names vnto them, and the firſt blazer of their Pedegrées.

Forms

plural

blazers