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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.

Handsome.

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

See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

Looking on or forward.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. 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.

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.

With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

-- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

panula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

ork of more that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.

iddle and upper Silurian rocks. The tubular corallites are united side by side in groups, looking in an end view like links of a chain. When perfect, the calicles show twelve septa. -- Chain coupling. (a) A shackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary couplin…

Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.

veral pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.