[blair] 
verb, blared, blar⋅ing, noun | 1. | to emit a loud, raucous sound: The trumpets blared as the procession got under way. |
| 2. | to sound loudly; proclaim noisily: We sat there horrified as the radio blared the awful news. |
| 3. | a loud, raucous noise: The blare of the band made conversation impossible. |
| 4. | glaring intensity of light or color: A blare of sunlight flooded the room as she opened the shutters. |
| 5. | fanfare; flourish; ostentation; flamboyance: a new breakfast cereal proclaimed with all the blare of a Hollywood spectacle. |
| 6. | Eastern New England. the bawl of a calf. |
| blare (blâr) v. blared, blar·ing, blares v. intr. To sound loudly and stridently: a stereo blaring in the next apartment. v. tr.
[Middle English bleren.] |