gazer (gazer)

One who gazes; one who looks steadily and intently; an attentive onlooker. Some brawl, which in that chamber high They should still dance to please a gazer's sight. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 516). He cleared his course swiftly acro the bay, between gayly decorated boats filled with gazers , who cheered him with instrumental music, or broke out in songs. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 362. Great Britain. The appointment of Sir John Hawley Glover to the governorship of Newfoundland is gazetted in London. The American , VII. 174.