Definition of "dazzle"

Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.

1834, Henry Taylor, Philip van Artevelde‎, volume 1, page 45

For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.

1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History in Ten Centuries‎

[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.

1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy‎

We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]

1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition)

Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]

2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176

I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.

2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22