▪ I. † gaure, v. Obs.
Also gawre(n, gowren, gare.
[Possibly a frequentative f. gaw v.]
1. intr. To stare, gape, gaze in wonder or astonishment.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus ii. 1108 (1157) And seide hir, caste it now a-wey a-non, Þat folk may sen, and gauren on vs tweye. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas ix. iii. (1554) 199 a, For very shame I did mine eyen close For them y{supt} gaured and cast on me their sight. a 1529 Skelton Magnif. 2275, I was your mayster..And nowe on me ye gaure and sporne. |
2. To shout or cry (cf. gape v. 1 c).
| 1530 Palsgr. 561/2, I gaure, I krye, je hue. Howe he gaureth after his hauke: comment il hue apres son oyseau. |
Hence ˈgauring ppl. a.; also gauring-stock, a gazing-stock.
| 1558 T. Phaer æneid vi. R j b, With fifty garing heads [L. quinquaginta atris hiatibus] a monstrous dragon stands vpright. 1559 Mirr. Mag., Dk. York xxi, As a gawring Stocke he sent it [the duke's head] to the Queen. 1579 Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. ii. lxxv. 252 b, Thou art a notable garyng stocke for al men. |
▪ II. gaure, gaurish
obs. ff. giaour, garish.