Gaze

gaz, v.i. to look fixedly.—M. a fixed look a look of prolonged attention: the object gazed at. [From a Scand. root preserved m Swed. gas a, to stare, akin to the Goth, base gais. See Aghast and Ghastly.] Gazelle, Gazel, ga-zeF, u. a small species of antelope with beautiful dark eyes, found in Arabia and N. Africa [Fr.—Ar. ghazal a wild -goat.] Gazette, ga-ret', «. a newspaper the official newspaper.— v t to publish in a gazette -pr.p gazetting, /a.p. gazetted. [Fr. — It gazzetta a Venetian com worth about £d., the sum charged for a reading of the Hist Venetian newspaper written sheet w hich apjieared about the middle of the 16th century during the war with Sohman II.: or from It gazzetta in the sense of a magpie = a chatterer