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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
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
gaze
like Joshua’s moon in Ajalon!
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gaze

GAZE

,
Verb.
I.
[Gr. to be astonished, and Heb. to see or look, that is, to fix the eye or to reach with the eye.]
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.
To view with fixed attention.
And gazed awhile the ample sky.
[It is little used as a transitive verb.]

GAZE

,
Noun.
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder or admiration; a continued look of attention.
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.

Definition 2024


gāzē

gāzē

See also: gaze, Gaze, gazé, gāze, gáže, and -gaze

Latvian

gāzē f

  1. locative singular form of gāze