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Webster 1913 Edition
Gaze
Gaze
(gāz)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gazed
(gāzd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gazing
.] [OE.
gasen
, akin to dial. Sw. gasa
, cf. Goth. us-gaisjan
to terrify, us-geisnan
to be terrified. Cf. Aghast
, Ghastly
, Ghost
, Hesitate
.] To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Syn. – To gape; stare; look.
– To
Gaze
, Gape
, Stare
. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look. Gaze
,Verb.
T.
To view with attention; to gaze on .
[R.]
And
gazed
a while the ample sky. Milton.
Gaze
,Noun.
1.
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
With secret
Or open admiration him behold.
gaze
Or open admiration him behold.
Milton.
2.
The object gazed on.
Made of my enemies the scorn and
gaze
. Milton.
At gaze
(a)
(Her.)
With the face turned directly to the front; – said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon.
(b)
In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; – a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.
I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,
Than that earth should stand at
Than that earth should stand at
gaze
like Joshua’s moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gaze
GAZE
,Verb.
I.
To fix the eyes and look steadily and earnestly; to look with eagerness or curiosity; as in admiration, astonishment, or in study.
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? Acts.1.
GAZE
,Verb.
T.
And gazed awhile the ample sky.
[It is little used as a transitive verb.]
GAZE
,Noun.
With secret gaze,
Or open admiration, him behold--
1.
The object gazed on; that which causes one to gaze. Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.