Gay"some (?), a. Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.
Gay"tre (?), n. [See Gaitre.] The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gaze (gz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed (gzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing.]
[OE. gasen, akin to dial. Sw. gasa, cf. Goth. us-gaisjan to terrify,
us- geisnan to be terrified. Cf. Aghast, Ghastly, Ghost, Hesitate.] To
fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or
curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Acts i. 11.
Syn. -- To gape; stare; look. -- To Gaze, Gape, Stare. To gaze is to
look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest
or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and
feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of
insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the
beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange
sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant
look.