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the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [Obs.]

about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.

barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

d that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.

Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

A sweet or loving look. [Obs.] Spenser.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

on, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.

Of or relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

of Besee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Evil biseye, ill looking. [Obs.]

Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy. Looking diligently, . . . lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you. Heb. xii. 15.

sing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.