And gazed a while the ample sky. --Milton.
With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold.
--Milton.
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.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? --Acts i. 11.
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.