gaze 
This lilank stare is iiuk'kly succeeded by an intellectual 
'i,i whirl) n octiizes the thinjj l>v connecting It with 
others. II. 11. /,'"< . I'lobs. of Life and -Mind, II. ii. I 23. 
2. The object gazed on ; a gazing-stock. [Po- 
etical.] 
Yield thee, coward, 
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time. 
Shalt., Macbeth, v. 7. 
Made of ray enemies the scorn and gaze. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 34. 
At gaze (formerly, at a gaze). () In the attitude of gaz- 
ing or staring; looking in wonder, hesitation, etc.; agaze; 
specifically, in the position assumed by a stag when he 
turns round in sudden fear or surprise upon first hearing 
the sound of the hunt. 
The Spaniard stands at a gaze all this while, hoping that 
we may do the Work. llowell, Letters, I. v. 6. 
The truth is this, in the reign of King Henry the eighth, 
after the destruction of monasteries, learning was at a 
loss, and the University . . . stood at a. gaze what would 
become of her. liny, Proverbs (2d ed., 1678), p. SOI. 
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, Locksley Hall. 
(i) In her., standing and turning the head so as to look 
out from the shield : said only of the hart : equivalent to 
statant affrontt, which is applied to 
other beasts used as charges. 
gazebot (ga-ze'bo), . [Hu- 
morously formed from gaze, 
simulating the form of a L. 
verb of the 2d conjugation, in 
the fut. ind. 1st pers. sing, (like 
ridebo, 'I shall see'), as if 
meaning 'I shall gaze.'] A 
summer-house commanding an 
extensive prospect. Also writ- 
ten gazeebo. 
Hart at Gaze. 
( From Berry's " Her- 
aldry.") 
gazefult (gaz'ful), a. [< gaze + -/!.] Look- 
ing with a gaze; looking intently; given to 
gazing. 
The ravisht harts of gazefull men might reare 
To admiration of that heavenly light, 
From whence proceeds such soule enchaunting might. 
Spenser, In Honour of Beautie, 1. 15. 
gazehound (gaz'hound), . [Formerly also 
gasehoitiid; < gaze + hound.] A hound that 
pursues by sight rather than by scent: com- 
monly applied to the greyhound. 
See'st thou the gaze-hound. > how with glance severe 
From the close herd he marks the destiu'd deer? 
Tickell, Fragment of a Poem on Hunting. 
The Agasacus or Gate-hound chased indifferently the 
fox, hare, or buck. Pennant, Brit. Zool., The Dog. 
The awift gazehounds, ... by sheer speed, run down 
antelope, jack-rabbit, coyotes, and foxes. 
T. liuoiceelt. The Century, XXXVI. 200. 
gazel 1 , gazelle (ga-zel'), [= E>- G- gazelle 
= Dan. gazel = Sw. gazell, < OF. yazfl, gazelle, 
F. gazelle = Sp. gazela = Pg. ga:etta = It. gaz- 
sella (NL. gazella), a gazel, < Ar. ghazal, ghazel 
(> Pers. ghazal), a gazel.] A small graceful 
antelope of delicate form, with large liquid eyes 
and short cyliudric horns, and of a yellowish 
color, with a dark band along the flanks, it has 
a tuft of hair at the knee. The name is specially applica- 
ble to a North African animal often celebrated in Arabian 
Gazel {Gazella agrcas). 
poetry, formerly called Antflope dorcat, now Gazella dor- 
cats or Dorcas gazella ; but it is indiscriminately applied to 
a number of related antelopes. Among others may be 
mentioned the Persian gazel, G. nubgutturosa ; the Indian 
gazel, G. Itennetti; the muscat, G. muxcatensis ; the Ara- 
bian ariel, G. araUca ; the korin of Senegal, G. nifjroru ; 
the dama, G. dantn ; the Abyssinian gazel, G. sozmnier- 
riii'ii ; the East African gazel, G. yranti, etc. 
gazel 2 (gaz'el), n. [Also ghazal; = G. gasel, 
</hfisel, < Pers. gliazal, < Ar. {/hazel, ghazal, a 
love-poem.] 1. In Persian poetry, a form of 
verse in which the first two lines rime and for 
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this rime a new one must be found in the 
second line of each succeeding couplet, the 
alternate line being free. The Germans have 
imitated this form, and there have been a few 
English attempts. 
During all these periods of literary activity, lyric poetry, 
pure and simple i. e.,the ghazal in its legitimate form 
had by no means been neglected. 
Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 659. 
In their [Persian bards'] amatory gazela, the fair one is 
described with passionate adoration and exuberant im- 
agery, combined with a delicacy of sentiment that never 
degenerates into coarseness. S. A. Ret., CXL. 331. 
2. In music, a piece in which a short theme or 
a refrain frequently recurs, 
gazeless (gaz'les), a. [< gaze + -less.'] Un- 
seeing; not looking. Davies. 
Desire lies dead upon the gazeleis eye. 
Wolcot, Peter Pindar, p. 98. 
Gazella (ga-zel 'a), n. [NL. (De Blainville): 
see gazefl . J The typical genus of gazels, of the 
subfamily Gazellince. Also called Dorcas. The 
common gazel of North Africa is G. dorcat; that of South 
Africa is the springbok, G. euchore. There are many others. 
See cut under gazell. 
gazelle, . See gazel 1 . 
Gazellinas (gaz-e-11'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Gazella 
+ -iiirc.] A subfamily group of about 20 spe- 
cies of small, lithe, extremely agile, and most- 
ly desert-loving antelopes; the gazels proper : 
same as the genus Gazella in a broad sense, 
but by some authors divided into Pantholops, 
Procttpra, Gazella, Tragops, and Antidoreas. 
gazelline (ga-zel ' in), o. [< gazel 1 , gazelle, + 
-Hie 1 .] Having the characters of a gazel ; per- 
taining to the Gazellinai : specifically applied 
to that group of antelopes which the common 
gazel exemplifies. 
gazementt (gaz'ment), n. [< gaze + -met.] 
The act of gazing; stare. 
Then forth he brought his snowy Florimele, 
Whom Trompart had in keeping there beside, 
Covered from peoples oazement with a vele. 
Spenne r, F. Q., V. ill 17. 
gazer (ga'zfer), n. One who gazes; one who 
looks steadily and intently; nn attentive on- 
looker. 
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 across 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. 
gazett, [= F. gazette = NGr. j-afera, < It. 
gazzetta, a small coin, perhaps a dim. of L. 
gaza, treasure, wealth, < Gr. yd^a, treasure, a 
sum of money ; said to be of Pers. origin. Cf . 
gazette.'] A small Venetian coin. See gaz- 
zetta. 
It is too little : yet, 
Since you have said the word, I am content ; 
But will not go a gazet less. 
Massinger, Maid of Honour, iii. 1. 
A gazet : this is almost a penny. 
Con/at, Crudities, II. 68 (ed. 1776). 
gazette (ga-zef), . [Formerly also gazet and 
gazetta ; F\ gazette = Sp. gaceta = Pg. gazeta, 
< It. gazzetta, a gazette, "a bill of news, or a 
short relation of the generall occurrences of the 
time, forged most commonly at Venice, and 
thence dispersed every month, into most parts 
of Christendom" (Cotgrave) (first published 
about 1536), a particular use of either (1) It. 
gazzetta, a magpie (dim. of gazza, a magpie), 
taken as equiv. to 'chatterer' or 'tattler' (cf. 
E. Tatler, Chatterbox, Town Tallc, and similar 
names of periodicals); or (2) It. gazzetta, a 
small coin (see gazet) ; so called because this 
coin was paid either for the newspaper itself 
(the usual explanation) or for the privilege of 
reading it ; cf . Picayune, as the name of a news- 
paper in New Orleans, named from picayune, a 
small coin.]. 1. A newspaper; a sheet of paper 
containing an account of current events and 
transactions : often used as the specific name of 
a newspaper. 
The freight of the gazetti, ship-boys' tale ; 
And, which is worst, even talk for ordinaries. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, v. 2. 
We sit as unconcerned as the pillars of a church, and 
hear the sermons as the Athenians did a story, or as we 
read a yazett. Jer. Taylor, Works, II. 1. 
A fresh coin was a kind of a gazette, that published the 
latest news of the empire. Addison, Ancient Medals, iii. 
2. Specifically, one of the three official news- 
papers of Great Britain, published in London 
(semi-weekly, first established at Oxford in 
1665), Edinburgh, and Dublin, containing, 
among other things, lists of appointments and 
gazzetta 
promotions in all branches of the public ser- 
vice, and of public honors awarded, and also 
lists of persons declared bankrupt. [Written 
either as a specific or a descriptive name, with 
or without a capital.] 
The next gazette mentioned thutthe King had pardoned 
him [the Duke of Monmouth] upon his confessing the late 
[dot. ISp. Burnet, Hist. Own Times, an. 1684. 
The court <i(tzi'tte accomplished what the abettors of in- 
dependence had attempted in vain. 
Burke, To the Sheriffs of Bristol. 
Hence 3. An official or authoritative report 
or announcement in or as if in the Gazette. 
[Eng.] 
If we were to read the gazette of a naval victory from 
the pulpit, we should be dazzled with the eager eyes of 
our audience they would sit tbrougb an earthquake to 
hear us. Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland, iii. 
To appear in the Gazette, to have one's name In 
the Gazette, to have one's name mentioned in any par- 
ticular way in one of the British official Gazettes; spe- 
cifically, in com., to have one's bankruptcy so announced, 
after a judicial decision. 
gazette (ga-zef), . t.; pret. and pp. gazetted, 
ppr. gazetting. [< gazette, w.] To insert in a 
gazette; announce or publish in a gazette 
specifically, in one of the three official Gazettes 
of Great Britain. 
The appointment of Sir John Hawley Glover to the gov- 
ernorship of Newfoundland is gazetted in London. 
The American, VII. 174. 
gazetteer (gaz-e-ter'), . [= F. gazetier = Sp. 
gacetero = Pg. gazeteiro, < It. gazzettiere, a writer 
of news, < gazzetta, a gazette : see gazette.'] If. 
A writer of news, or an officer appointed to pub- 
lish news by authority ; a journalist. 
Thy very gazetteers themselves give o'er, 
Ev'n Ralph repent*, and Henley writes no more. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 215. 
Steele . . . was a man of ready talents; and, being an 
ardent partisan pamphleteer, was rewarded by Govern- 
ment with the place of Gazetteer. 
Shaw, Eng. Lit. (Backus's revision), xix. 
2f. A newspaper; a gazette. 
They have drawled through columns of gazetteers and 
advertisers for a century together. 
Burke, State of the Nation. 
3. A geographical dictionary; an account of 
the divisions, places, seas, rivers, mountains, 
etc., of the world or of any part of it, under 
their names, in alphabetical order. [This use of 
the word is said to be due to the circumstance that the 
first work of the kind, by Laurence Echard (third edition 
1695), bore the title " The Gazeteer's or Newsman's Inter- 
preter" (afterward shortened to "The Gazetteer"), as be- 
ing especially useful to newspaper writers. I 
gazing-stock (ga'zing-stok), n. A person or 
thing gazed at with wonder or curiosity, espe- 
cially of a scornful kind. 
Ye were made a yazingstoclc both by reproaches and 
afflictions. Heb. x. 33. 
Let the small remnant of my life be to me an inward 
and outward desolation, and to the world a gazing-stock 
of wretched misery. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. 
gazles, n. The black currant, Itibes nigrum. 
[Sussex and Kent, Eng.] 
gazogene (gaz'o-jen), . [< F. gazogene, < gaz, 
= E . gas, + Gr.-ytvw, producing : see -gen, -gene.'] 
An apparatus used for manufacturing aerated 
water on a small scale for domestic use, by the 
action of an acid on an alkali carbonate. It gener- 
ally consists of two globes, one above the other, connected 
by a tube, the lower containing water, and the upper the 
ingredients for producing the aerated liquid. When water 
is gently introduced into the upper globe from the lower, 
by inclining the vessel so as to about half fill it, chemical 
action takes place, and the carbonic acid descends and 
gradually saturates the water in the lower globe. When 
this has taken place, the aerated water can be drawn off by 
opening a stop-cock at the top. Also spelled aasogene. 
gazolite (gaz'o-lit), n. [< F. gazolite, < gaz, = 
E. gas, + Gr. A/0oc, a stone.] An aerolite. 
gazblyte (gaz'o-llt), n. [< F. gazolyte, < gaz, 
= E. gag, -T- Gr. ?.trof, verbal adj. of /.i-etv, dis- 
solve.] In cheni., in Berzelius's classification, 
an element which exists, as supposed, only in 
the form of a gas. Gazolytes, in this classification, 
form one of the four sections into which the simple ele- 
ments were divided by Berzelius, the other three being 
metals, metalloids, and halogen*. 
gazon (F. pron. ga-z6n', corrupted ga-zon'), n. 
[F., grass, sod, turf, < OHG. waso, MHG. wase, 
turf, sod, moist ground, G. wesen, turf, sod, dial, 
steam, = AS. wase, E. ooze : see ooze.] In fort., 
turf or sod used to line parapets and the trav- 
erses of galleries. 
gazzatumt, w. [ML. : see gauze."} A fine silk 
or linen stuff of the gauze kind, mentioned by 
writers in the thirteenth century. 
gazzetta (gat-set'ta), n. [It.: see gazet.] A 
small copper coin, worth about 3 farthings, for- 
merly issued by the Venetian republic ; also, a 
similar coin, with Greek inscriptions, made in 
