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An inspection or overlooking. [Obs.] Shak.

An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. Ure.

e; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler. Shak.

ter; wanness. The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look. Pope.

enated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward things or consequences, and is often applied to trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness.…

a charm, but soon the charm will pass. Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. Tennyson.

A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter. Dickens.

To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." Shak.

Trifling; trickery. [Obs.] "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.

To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]

To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance. When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear. Dryden.

To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.

Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.

To peer; to look inquisitively. Dickens.

The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] Bailey.

One who looks on the dark side of things.

A large building, or mass of buildings. The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. Dryden.

To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.

n expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt. And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray. Shak. Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. Prior.

To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.