What is the meaning of the word "blaze"?

Definitions:

a light-colored marking noun
- they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes
a strong flame that burns brightly noun
- the blaze spread rapidly
noisy and unrestrained mischief noun
- raising blazes
to burn brightly and intensely verb
- The sun is blazing today!
to indicate by marking trees with blazes verb
- We blazed the new trail we built with orange paint marks.
to move rapidly and as if blazing verb
- The spaceship blazed out into space.
to shine brightly and intensively verb
- Meteors blazed across the atmosphere.
to shoot rapidly and repeatedly verb
- They blazed away at the enemies.