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fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object. For ever upon the ground I see thee stare. Chaucer. Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret. Shak.

One who stares, or gazes.

Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.

Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.

Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous.

To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." Spenser.

A woman who is a votary. Shak.

omary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot.

One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead Plautus (trans. 1694).

See centare.

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

r ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Shak.

olet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. Ure.

figure o Must I give way and room to your rash choler Shall I be frighted when a madman stares Shak.

e chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.

To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. Sir W. Scott. To tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

lf-forgetfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. Byron.