adv. prop. phr.; also a gase, and expanded, at gaze. [A prep.1 of state + GAZE v.] In a gazing attitude; on the gaze, gazing.
c. 1430. How the Good Wijf, etc., in Babees Bk. (1868), 39. Go þou not into þe toun as it were a gase.
1759. Robertson, Hist. Scotl., I. III. 184. They stood confounded and at gaze.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. l. 9. Fathers and sons agaze at each other’s haggardness.
