Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gaze \Gaze\, v. t.
   To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]

         And gazed a while the ample sky.         --Milton.

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}
      (a) (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.
      (b) 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.

Gaze \Gaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gazed}; 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 fixx 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.

   Usage: 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.

Source : WordNet®

gaze
     n : a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn:
         {regard}]

gaze
     v : look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher
         with amazement" [syn: {stare}]