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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Look \Look\ (l[oo^]k), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Looked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Looking}.] [OE. loken, AS. l[=o]cian; akin to G. lugen, OHG. luog[=e]n.]
1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.
2. To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.
3. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.
It would look more like vanity than gratitude. --Addison.
Observe how such a practice looks in another person. --I. Watts.
4. To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.
The inner gate that looketh to north. --Ezek. viii. 3.
The east gate . . . which looketh eastward. --Ezek. xi. 1.
5. In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.
Look, how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue. --Milton.
Note: Look, in the imperative, may be followed by a dependent sentence, but see is oftener so used.
Look that ye bind them fast. --Shak.
Look if it be my daughter. --Talfourd.
6. To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.
My toes look through the overleather. --Shak.
7. To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.
Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall. --Spenser.
{To look about}, to look on all sides, or in different directions.
{To look about one}, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded.
{To look after}. (a) To attend to; to take care of; as, to look after children. (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation.
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. --Luke xxi. 26. (c) To seek; to search.
My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. --Woodward.
{To look at}, to direct the eyes toward so that one sees, or as if to see; as, to look at a star; hence, to observe, examine, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice.
{To look black}, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance.
The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. --Holinshed.
{To look down on} or {To look down upon}, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise.
{To look for}. (a) To expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship. ''Look now for no enchanting voice.'' --Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.
{To look forth}. (a) To look out of something, as from a window. (b) To threaten to come out. --Jer. vi.
1. (Rev. Ver.).
{To look forward to}. To anticipate with an expectation of pleasure; to be eager for; as, I am looking forward to your visit.
{To look into}, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into one's conduct or affairs.
{To look on}. (a) To regard; to esteem.
Her friends would look on her the worse. --Prior. (b) To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think of.
I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. --Dryden. (c) To be a mere spectator.
I'll be a candleholder, and look on. --Shak.
{To look out}, to be on the watch; to be careful; as, the seaman looks out for breakers.
{To look through}. (a) To see through. (b) To search; to examine with the eyes.
{To look to} or {To look unto}. (a) To watch; to take care of. ''Look well to thy herds.'' --Prov. xxvii. 23. (b) To resort to with expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to surety for payment. ''Look unto me, and be ye saved.'' --Is. xlv. 22.
{To look up}, to search for or find out by looking; as, to look up the items of an account.
{To look up to}, to respect; to regard with deference.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Looking \Look"ing\, adjective Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Looking \Look"ing\, noun
1. The act of one who looks; a glance.
2. The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face. [Obs.]
All dreary was his cheer and his looking. --Chaucer.
{Looking for}, anticipation; expectation. ''A certain fearful looking for of judgment.'' --Heb. x. 27.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
looking
adjective: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk" [syn: {sounding}]
noun
1: the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him" [syn: {look}, {looking at}]
2: the act of searching visually [syn: {looking for}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LOOKING-:GLASS:, noun A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day.
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