gaze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To look steadily, intently, and with fixed attention.
2. n. A steady, fixed look.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To look steadily or intently; look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or anxiety.
2. Synonyms Gape, etc. See stare.
3. To look at intently or with fixed attention.
4. n. A fixed or intent look, as of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
5. n. The object gazed on; a gazing-stock.
6. n. In heraldry, standing and turning the head so as to look out from the shield: said only of the hart: equivalent to statant affrontė, which is applied to other beasts used as charges.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To stare intently or earnestly.
2. v. transitive (poetic) To stare at.
3. n. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
4. n. archaic The object gazed on.
5. n. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
2. v. rare To view with attention; to gaze on .
3. n. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
4. n. The object gazed on.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a long fixed look
2. v. look at with fixed eyes