v. i.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Acts i. 11.
v. t. To view with attention; to gaze on . [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
And gazed a while the ample sky. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
With secret gaze
Or open admiration him behold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
At 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! 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. (Zool.) See Gazelle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The black currant; also, the wild plum. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 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
☞ 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
n. View. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]