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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. "In expectation of a guest." Tennyson. My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him. Ps. lxii. 5.

Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. F. Anstey.

to a greater distance; more renotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.

Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

ry fire, first, by Prometheus. -- Hog's fennel, a European plant (Peucedanum officinale) looking something like fennel.

A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.

im; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation. A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.

plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

A looking-glass; a mirror.

, 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.

Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager. Shak.

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.

Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.

f plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome. None so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.