*gaze*

p. p. [ Only in p. p.; another spelling for aghast. ] Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. al the + ghazāl. ] (Zool.) The true gazelle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., or /mhw>. [ Ar. aryil, ayyil, stag. ] (Zool.) (a) A variety of the gazelle (Antilope dorcas, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel). [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To view with attention; to gaze on . [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And gazed a while the ample sky. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

With secret gaze
Or open admiration him behold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The object gazed on. [ 1913 Webster ]

Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Humorously formed from gaze. ] A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gazing. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The black currant; also, the wild plum. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Gazelle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gazelle, OF. also, gazel; cf. Sp. gacela, Pr. gazella, It. gazella; all fr. Ar. ghaz&unr_;l a wild goat. ] (Zool.) One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. [ Written also gazel. ]

☞ The common species of Northern Africa (Gazella dorcas); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel (G. Arabica); the mohr of West Africa (G. mohr); the Indian (G. Bennetti); the ahu or Persian (G. subgutturosa); and the springbok or tsebe (G. euchore) of South Africa, are the best known. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. View. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gazes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. gazeta, gazzetta, prob. dim. of L. gaza royal treasure. ] A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gazette, It. gazzetta, perh. from gazetta a Venetian coin (see Gazet), said to have been the price of the first newspaper published at Venice; or perh. dim. of gazza magpie, a name perh. applied to the first newspaper; cf. OHG. agalstra magpie, G. elster. ] A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gazetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gazetting. ] To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. gazetier. ] 1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A newspaper; a gazette. [ Obs. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To gaze; to overlook. [ Poetic ] “Earth's o'ergazing mountains.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and Astroscopus guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward. [ 1913 Webster ]