Definitions for: Gaze


[n] a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"
[v] look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"



Webster (1913) Definition: Gaze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed; 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 fixx 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? --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.


Gaze, v. t.
To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]

And gazed a while the ample sky. --Milton.


Gaze, n.
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.

Synonyms: regard, stare

See Also: look, outface, outstare, stare, stare down, stargaze

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