Search the Dictionary

Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.

conceit. [Obs.] How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. Sir P. Sidney.

The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. Reid. To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.

reat difference between dame and dam. T. L. K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. Shak.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.

A looking down; a despising. [R.] W. Montagu.

A looking down; despection. [Obs.]

the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.

e peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton.

Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.

tian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. R. Browning.

Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious. Shak.

Waiting in expectation; looking for; (Med.)