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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bleeze.

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Examples

  • Finding, on her return, that the stranger declined to go into another apartment (which indeed, she allowed, would be but cold and smoky till the fire bleezed up), she installed her guest hospitably by the fire-side, and offered what refreshment her house afforded.

    Chapter XI 1917

  • A bench was set before the sessions-house fire, which bleezed brightly.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • BLEEZE, _v. n_. milk is said to be bleezed when it has become a little sour.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837

  • A furm was set before the session-house fire, which bleezed brightly, nor had I any thought that such an unearthly place could have been made to look half so comfortable either by coal or candle; so my spirits rose up as if a weight had been taken off them, and I wondered, in my bravery, that a man like me could be afraid of anything.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • A furm was set before the session-house fire, which bleezed brightly, nor had I any thought that such an unearthly place could have been made to look half so comfortable either by coal or candle; so my spirits rose up as if a weight had been taken off them, and I wondered, in my bravery, that a man like me could be afraid of anything.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • Finding, on her return, that the stranger declined to go into another apartment (which, indeed, she allowed, would be but cold and smoky till the fire bleezed up), she installed her guest hospitably by the fireside, and offered what refreshment her house afforded.

    Guy Mannering 1815

  • Finding, on her return, that the stranger declined to go into another apartment (which, indeed, she allowed, would be but cold and smoky till the fire bleezed up), she installed her guest hospitably by the fireside, and offered what refreshment her house afforded.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • Finding, on her return, that the stranger declined to go into another apartment (which, indeed, she allowed, would be but cold and smoky till the fire bleezed up), she installed her guest hospitably by the fireside, and offered what refreshment her house afforded.

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Finding, on her return, that the stranger declined to go into another apartment (which, indeed, she allowed, would be but cold and smoky till the fire bleezed up), she installed her guest hospitably by the fireside, and offered what refreshment her house afforded.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Do ye think we havena heard o’ your grand popinjay wark yonder, and how ye bleezed away as muckle pouther as wad hae shot a’ the wild-fowl that we’ll want atween and Candlemas — and then ganging majoring to the piper’s Howff wi’ a’ the idle loons in the country, and sitting there birling, at your poor uncle’s cost, nae doubt, wi’ a’ the scaff and raff

    Old Mortality 2004

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  • A little flustered, as by drink.

    May 12, 2008

  • (adjective) - Signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance.

    --John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808

    January 14, 2018