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At gaze

Gaze \Gaze\, n.

  1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

    With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold.
    --Milton.

  2. The object gazed on. Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. --Milton. At gaze

    1. (Her.) With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon.

    2. In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.

      I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
      --Tennyson.

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at gaze

prep.phr. (context chiefly heraldry English) gazing; standing so as to stare (especially of deer).

Usage examples of "at gaze".

In the fall of 1984, a group of hikers found a kid's plastic record-player in that gazebo, with a 45-rpm record on the spindle.

Also, he said and I found this much more interesting the apparitions had been showing up in and around that gazebo for four years.