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To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.

See Moonfish (b).

One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.

Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.

backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

A careful looking or watching for any object or event.

Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. [R.] Dryden.

A fluke of an anchor.

See Flucan.

Fluky.

To look beforehand or forward. [Obs.] Spenser.

Handsome.

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

A looker-on.

Looking on or forward.

To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak.

To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.

One who overlooks.

To look forward. [Obs.] Surrey.