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A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.

A looking-glass; a mirror.

An enticing look or glance. [Obs.] A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl.

To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. [Scot.] Jamieson.

An ogling look. [Obs.]

To look steadfastly; to gaz In vengeance gloating on another's pain. Byron.

To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.

To pout; to look sullen. [Obs.] Garth.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.

A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

d or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson. -- Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting. -- Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. -- Gold finder. (a) One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] Sw…

Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.

, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.…

To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.

Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. Shak.

Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. Shak. I hav…

Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim. "Nick looked sour and grum." Arbuthnof.