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Look :: Look (v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively..

Outgaze :: Outgaze (v. t.) To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance..

Ill-looking :: Ill-looking (a.) Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv..

Rummage :: Rummage (v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf..

Comely :: Comely (superl.) Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome.

Contemplation :: Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

Seedy :: Seedy (superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat..

Cavalier :: Cavalier (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts..

Earth :: Earth (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria..

Retrospect :: Retrospect (n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.

Motion :: Motion (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn..

Spectant :: Spectant (a.) Looking forward.

Blench :: Blench (n.) A looking aside or askance.

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A looking-glass; a mirror.

Half-faced :: Half-faced (a.) Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.

Cirripedia :: Cirripedia (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several 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..

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, 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..

Hard-favored :: Hard-favored (a.) Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored..

Quicksilvering :: Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

Look :: Look (n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look..

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