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    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 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. -- 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, 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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    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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