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to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

To roll the eyes; to stare. And wink and goggle like an owl. Hudibras.

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

wl. Wizards that peep, and that mutter. Is. viii. 19. Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself. Dryden.

Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.

To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak.

character by one's own judgment. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. Pope.

ce with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.

A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

h the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. Shak. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.

owish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.

t; a stern gaze; a stern decree. The sterne wind so loud gan to rout. Chaucer. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak. When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Shak. Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. Dryden. These barren rocks, your stern inheritance. Word…

Pale or light blue. [Obs.] "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.

one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like. "Men's wittes ben so dull." Chaucer. I will stare him out of his wits. Shak.