gaze \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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see also:
at gaze