gazer
(ˈgeɪzə(r))
Also 6 gaser.
[f. gaze v. + -er1.]
1. One who gazes or looks steadily, esp. from motives of curiosity.
| 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xix. 4 He [Zacheus] stood a lofte in a tree to bee a gazer vpon one man and no mo. 1552 Bk. Com. Prayer, Commun. 1st Exhort., If ye stand by as gasers and lokers on them that do communicate. 1590 Greene Never too late (1600) 2 Lockes where loue did sit and twine Nets to snare the gazers eyne. 1649 Milton Eikon. Pref. Wks. (1851) 332 The conceited portraiture before his Book..sett there to catch fools and silly gazers. 1742 Young Nt. Th. viii. 493 Fain would he make the world his pedestal; Mankind the gazers. 1818 Byron Ch. Har. iv. clii, How smiles The gazer's eye with philosophic mirth. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 625 Tower Hill was covered..with an innumerable multitude of gazers. |
2. The name of a fish.
| 1861 J. Couch Brit. Fishes I. 68 Broad headed Gazer. Polyprosopus macer, Nobis. |