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Definition: At gaze
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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