From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gaze \Gaze\, v. t.
To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]
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And gazed a while the ample sky. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gaze \Gaze\, n.
1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration;
a continued look of attention.
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With secret gaze
Or open admiration him behold. --Milton.
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2. The object gazed on.
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Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. --Milton.
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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.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gaze \Gaze\ (g[=a]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed (g[=a]zd); 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.
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Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? --Acts i. 11.
Syn: To gape; stare; look.
Usage: 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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gaze
n 1: a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn:
gaze, regard]
v 1: look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the
teacher with amazement" [syn: gaze, stare]