Gaze /(gāz)/

Gaze

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Gazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing

  1. 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?
    — 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.

Gaze

v. t.
  1. To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]
    And gazed a while the ample sky.

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.
  2. The object gazed on.
    Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.
    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!

Phrases & Compounds
At gaze
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.