hiare (general term for standing wide open, of what usually is or might be closed; hence offissures in the earth, of the mouth, etc., and of gaping with astonishment; ☞ Hor., Sat., 1, 2, 88; from desire of food or any possession, corvus hians, Phaedrus; emtor hians, Hor.; avaritia hians atque imminens, Cic.): oscitare: oscitari (to open the mouth, or anything that resembles a mouth; hence to yawn, and of flowers, to expand themselves; IMPROP. = to sit and gape; to be listless and inactive): omnia stupere (to gape at everything in wonderment, Petronius, 29, 1): inhiare alicui rei or aliquid; inhiantem mirari aliquid (after Verg., Aen., 7, 814, to gape at): hianti ore captare aliquid (to gape for food, etc.; e.g. aquam, Curt., 4, 16).