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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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"Gaze" Quotes from Famous Books

... We have seen what strange people and animals occupied the land, and have caught some glimpses of a past that has been recovered to us out of the very night of time. From under the ashes of Vesuvius archaeologists have brought to light an ancient city. We gaze on it with great interest, for we there see illustrated the state of society two thousand years ago. But other cities of that time are still in existence, and not only by the aid of tradition and song, but from the pages of history, we can learn of the civilization of the Roman people at the time ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... you alone, then, may I confide my sorrows and my hopes?" The paralytic motioned "Yes." Valentine took Maximilian's hand. "Look attentively, then, at this gentleman." The old man fixed his scrutinizing gaze with slight astonishment on Morrel. "It is M. Maximilian Morrel," said she; "the son of that good merchant of Marseilles, ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... occasion "a moment turned his awful face away" to gaze approvingly on the high-born mother who had so ...

— English Men of Letters: Coleridge • H. D. Traill

... of his gaze, but saw only the meadow, and the horses feeding in it, and the thin smoke beyond, where Don Gaspar was bending his proud Castilian spirit to attend to ...

— Gold • Stewart White

... spectators who fill the streets and occupy the balconies and windows on Lord Mayor's day, and witness the glorious institutions of the Livery of the largest and most wealthy city of the world, and to gaze at the magnificent cavalcade preceding the state carriage of the Lord Mayor, think that the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and under-Sheriffs have but to mount their chargers, and be comfortably seated in the saddle, to receive the shouts of approbation from the multitude, they are in error. As the glorious ...

— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore

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