\Gaze\, 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 fixx 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.
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.

\Gaze\, v. t.
To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]
      And gazed a while the ample sky.         --Milton.

\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.
                                               --Milton.
2. The object gazed on.
         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.