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gapes

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gape  (gp, gp)
intr.v. gaped, gap·ing, gapes
1. To open the mouth wide; yawn.
2. To stare wonderingly or stupidly, often with the mouth open. See Synonyms at gaze.
3. To open wide: The curtains gaped when the wind blew.
n.
1. The act or an instance of gaping.
2. A large opening.
3. Zoology The width of the space between the open jaws or mandibles of a vertebrate.
4. gapes (used with a sing. verb) A disease of birds, especially young domesticated chickens and turkeys, caused by gapeworms and resulting in obstructed breathing.
5. gapes A fit of yawning.
[Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa.]
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The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
And you are very likely right, and I may be a simpleton: but, in my opinion, that knowledge only which is of being and of the unseen can make the soul look upwards, and whether a man gapes at the heavens or blinks on the ground, seeking to learn some particular of sense, I would deny that he can learn, for nothing of that sort is matter of science; his soul is looking downwards, not upwards, whether his way to knowledge is by water or by land, whether he floats, or only lies on his back.
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