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▪ I. outlook, n.|ˈaʊtlʊk|
[out- 7.]
1. The act or practice of looking out; a looking forth or abroad, esp. for observation or discovery; vigilant watch. lit. and fig. on the outlook, on the look-out, on the watch for what may turn up.
1815Scott Guy M. iv, What cheer, brother? You seem on the outlook, eh? 1820― Monast. xxii, The means of ascending it as a place of out-look. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xvi. §11 The best windows for outlook are, of course, oriels and bow windows. 1862Skelton Nugæ Crit. i. 46 Jackdaws..on the out-look for plunder. 1895United Service Mag. July 429 The failure of the Egyptians to keep an adequate outlook at night.
b. Vigilance, watchfulness.
1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xi. 162 They had a sharp expression of outlook and readiness.
2. A place from or by which a view is obtained; a look-out.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 97 The innocent eyes, those Casements and out-looks of the tender heart. 1877Talmage Serm. 291 He sent his servant to the outlook of the mountain to see if there were any signs of rain. 1878Foster Phys. iv. vi. 567 Viewed from the distant outlook.
3. The view or prospect from a place or point.
1828Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 25 One might have sickened and grown melancholy over such an outlook. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke ii, The dreary outlook of chimney-tops and smoke. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 116 There was a picturesque outlook on all sides.
b. A mental view or survey.
1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 1152 Above Applause; Which owes to Man's short Out-look all its Charmes. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. viii. 30 His [Tasso's] outlook over life was melancholy.
c. The prospect for the future.
1832Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1876) I. v. 324 My political outlook is very gloomy. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars iv. 178 They took a much more sober view of the outlook than the populace did.
4. attrib., as outlook box, outlook post, outlook tower, outlook window.
1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xvi. §11 The earth and the doings upon it being the chief object in outlook windows. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 65 Perhaps Burgh Head was an out-look station of the old sea-rovers. 1897Daily News 24 Dec. 2/5 Both outlook glasses were smashed, and the driver and stoker narrowly escaped injury.
▪ II. outˈlook, v.
[out- 18 c, 17, 15, 14.]
1. trans. To overcome or disconcert by looking; to look or stare down; to outstare.
1595Shakes. John v. ii. 115 To out-looke Conquest, and to winne renowne E'en in the iawes of danger and of death. 1600Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV Wks. 1874 I. 27 They think they can outlook our truer looks. 1707Norris Treat. Humility v. 220, I do not..endeavour to look big and great, or outlook others by a confident assurance.
†2. To look beyond. Obs.
1655H. Vaughan Silex Sc., Departed Fr. v, What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
†3. To look out, to select by looking. poet.
a1687Cotton Angler's Ballad i. Poems (1689) 76 Away to the Brook, All your Tackle out look.
†4. To outdo in looks or appearance. Obs.
1731Mrs. Delany Lett., to Mrs. A. Granville 295 No⁓body's equipage outlooked our's except my Lord Lieutenant's, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton's outshines her neighbours.
5. intr. To look out or forth. poet.
1888R. Buchanan City of Dream xii. 248, I saw those three wan Shapes Outlooking from the greenness of the woods. |