gazer

From gaze +‎ -er.

gazer (plural gazers)

1. One who gazes.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 38:

     Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:

   • 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‎^[1]:

     Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.

   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden‎^[2], New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, pages 86–7:

     I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.

   • 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, chapter V, in M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, transl., The Art of Spiritual Harmony‎^[3], page 49:

     Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.

• Garzê, Zager, graze

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ze/ ~ /ɡɑ.ze/

From gaz +‎ -er.

gazer

1. to gas (exterminate using gas)
2. (slang) to smoke (a cigarette)
3. (pronominal, se gazer) to rage, to become irate
4. (informal) to go well, to be well (feeling)

   ça gaze? ― how's it going?

   oui, ça gaze. ― it's going alright

• gazage

• → Italian: gazare
• → Romanian: gaza

From gaze +‎ -er.

gazer

1. to gloss over; to cover up; to hush up

• “gazer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• garez
• ragez