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noun

Gaze n.

A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. "With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold."

The object gazed on. "Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze."

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 gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!"

verb

Gaze v. t. To view with attention; to gaze on. (R.) "And gazed a while the ample sky."

Gaze v. i. (past & past part. gazed; pres. part. gazing) To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. "Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?"

Synonyms: 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.

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Etymology of 'Gaze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gaze" Quotes from Famous Books

... drowse all their twelve hours in the sun, and silently sleep away the other twelve, wrapped in the mantle of darkness. The only thing you want to do in a place like this is to gaze and gaze on the landscape, swinging your fancies to and fro, alternately humming a tune and nodding dreamily, as the mother on a winter's noonday, her back to the sun, rocks and croons her ...

— Glimpses of Bengal • Sir Rabindranath Tagore

... upon us. The boats were allowed to drift along at pleasure, and such was the force with which we had been shot out of the Morumbidgee, that we were carried nearly to the bank opposite its embouchure, whilst we continued to gaze in silent astonishment on the capacious channel we had entered; and when we looked for that by which we had been led into it, we could hardly believe that the insignificant gap that presented itself to us was indeed the termination of the beautiful and noble stream whose ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... confessed that he would be appreciative of any information. In three days a galley proof of the paragraph was in his hands. It confirmed his angriest fears. Publication of it would smear Io's name with scandal, and, by consequence, direct the leering gaze of ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... waited, with their eyes riveted on the heap of branches through which their gaze ...

— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant

... closed. The members of both Houses of Parliament have been led to the verge of the cruel abyss of poverty, and have been in solemn session assembled to contemplate its depths and its gloom. All alike have come to gaze; none have remained unmoved. There are some distinguished and eminent men, men whose power and experience I cannot impugn, who have started back appalled by what they have seen, and whose only idea is to slam the door on the grim and painful prospect ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

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