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35 words match “STARE”

STARE v. 6 definitions
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.
STARER n.
One who stares, or gazes.
OUTSTARE v.
To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.
OVERSTARE v. 2 definitions
To outstare. [Obs.] Shak.
PISTAREEN n.
An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.
SEPIOSTARE n.
The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
UPSTARE v.
To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." Spenser.
BLANKLY adv.
In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot.
BUFFLEHEAD n.
One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead Plautus (trans. 1694).
COCKNEY n.
r 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.
COOL a.
er ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.
CORPORAL a.
. 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.
EROTESIS n.
A figure o Must I give way and room to your rash choler Shall I be frighted when a madman stares Shak.
FRET v.
be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.
FUME v.
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.
GAPE v.
elf-forgetfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. Byron.
GAURE v.
To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
GLARE v. 2 definitions
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.
GLOAR v.
To squint; to stare. [Obs.]
GLOUT v.
To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at. [Obs.] Wright.
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