Search the Dictionary

ion, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.

ous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

eristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.

nnecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

shion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [Written also korin.]

A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.

nging; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase. And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes. Shak. How eagerly ye follow my disgraces! Shak. When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eag…

by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance. This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy. Hammond.

give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." Keble.

Plural of eye; obsolete, or used only in poetry. Shak. With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine. Mrs. Browning.

To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.

To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.

celebrant, the epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the Bishop of Sydney. Pall Mall Gazette.

Having knowledge or insight; intelligent. [R.] Gaze on, with inscient vision, toward the sun. Mrs. Browning.

The ahu or Asiatic gazelle.

The gazelle.