stare

verb

1. (intransitive)To look fixedly (at something).

   “She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.”

   “Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had”

   “A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.”

2. (transitive)To influence in some way by looking fixedly.

   “to stare a timid person into submission”

3. (intransitive)To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

   “staring windows or colours”

4. (intransitive, obsolete)To stand out; to project; to bristle.

   “Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.”

   “Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.”

noun

1. A persistent gaze.

   “the stares of astonished passers-by”

   “Who's that lounging in my chair? / Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?”

2. (archaic)A starling.

   “The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]”

name

1. A surname
2. A surname
3. A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
4. A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
5. A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
6. A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
7. A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
8. A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
9. A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.