lookingn.
/ˈlʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlʊkɪŋ/ 1. † b. In various proverbial phrases, in alliterative association with liking, loving, or lusting. Obsolete.
a. The action of look v. (in various senses). Also: an instance of this, a look or gaze.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun]
eyesenea1225
lookinga1225
sight1297
eyesight?c1335
seeing1372
view?c1475
vision1493
speculation1509
discernment1614
ken1667
outsight1681
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 145 Þer scal beon..Ivȝeðe wið-uten elde, Lokinge wið-uten winkunge.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 41 For nabbe ȝe naut to nome..of tollinde lokunges.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ix. 1125 Suche addres greueþ..now wiþ styngynge, now wiþ lokynge and sight.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1049 (MED) Þurȝ woȝe and won my lokyng ȝede.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 17 The eldest suster [was] for her highe and vnferme loking forsaken.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 74 The prydeful luking of my eine.
a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iii. sig. Fv Zoon's what a looking thou keep'st.
1617 R. Horne Points of Instr. (new ed.) sig. B8 Al wanton lookings, whisperings, touchings, and other impure behauiour stirring vp lust.
1681 O. Griffith Abraham's Prospect 3 A very earnest looking is thereby intended, like theirs who long for a special friends coming.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 176 Anger passes in the Gospel Account for Murder, and Looking, and Lusting for Adultery.
1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya II. iii. 51 Their looking was allowable, in order that they might be enabled to bear evidence.
1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 178 After long looking o'er the ocean wide.
1861 J. Edmond Children's Church at Home ix. 138 Looking is seeing with attention.
1913 Everybody's Mag. Dec. 747/2 We shall have no rule in our lookings or in our findings but this: Whatever checks industrial progress..is in the end a commercial disaster.
1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July . 84 It [sc. his hair]..had so many waves you got seasick from looking.
2011 D. Black Moral Time ii. 30 Mere looking is another form of involvement that can be too intimate.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 99 Ile looke to like, if looking liking moue. View more context for this quotation]
1604 G. Downame Christians Sanctuarie i. 4 As the old saying is, ἐκ τοῦ ὁρᾷν γένεται τὸ ἐρᾷν, of looking comes louing.
a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 154 By looking comes liking, you know the proverb.
1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Isa. xxx. 15) 119 By looking cometh lusting: and millions dye of the wound in the eye.
1695 E. Ravenscroft Canterbury Guests ii. v. 19 Looking breeds Liking; and Where the Eyes fixes, the Heart soon follows.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun]
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keepingc1380
charge1389
keepa1400
procuration?a1425
charchec1426
tuition1436
recommendation1483
fostera1500
sussy1513
carec1540
overlooking1565
regard1596
overview1598
accurance1677
protectiveness1847
protectingness1852
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 342 Aylmar þe gode kyng Dude him on mi lokyng.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 8 Þe worþssipe..we ssolle bere to oure uaderes gostliche, þet is to ham þet habbeþ þe lokingge ous to teche.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Þe zeneȝere is ase þe ilke þet is ine prisone in ysnes and ine ueteres and ine greate lokinge.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun]
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redeOE
lookingc1300
assizec1314
judging1357
definitionc1384
man's dayc1384
termination1395
discretiona1400
discussiona1425
decidingc1443
judicial1447
decisionc1454
arbitry1489
determinationa1513
determining1530
decerninga1535
discuss1556
discussment1559
thought1579
decernment1586
arbitrage1601
dijudication1615
crisis1623
decidementa1640
determinatinga1640
discernment1646
syndication1650
judication1651
dijudicatinga1656
adjudicature1783
call1902
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1875 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 160 Þat heo don sikernesse for-to stonde at holi churche lawe And to þe lokinge of holi churche.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7409 Vpe þe popes lokinge of rome he ssolde it do.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 86 (MED) Philip..askid if þei wild stand to þer lokyng.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > facial appearance or expression
cheerc1225
lookinga1325
countenancec1330
frontc1374
looka1400
looksc1400
aspect1590
brow1598
cast1653
mien1680
expression1830
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1797 (MED) His lokyng and his fface was as red so eny ffur is.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17288 + 108 (MED) His lokyng was als briȝt os is þe rede lempninge.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Dan. ii. 31 The loking [L. intuitus] therof was ferdful.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 307 Of hem comeþ in a mannys deeþ horrible siȝtis to make hem afeerd wiþ her foule lokyng.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 4707 Wene ye that hir louely looking Pleaseth vs any maner thing As it dooth you.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxvii. sig. Gviii Her fayre eyen..were incontynent tourned in to a ryght hidouse lokynge mobyle & sangwynouse to see.
a1568 R. Ascham Rep. & Disc. Affaires Germany (?1570) f. 11 By Inquisition of mens doyngs without order, & not onely of mens doynges, but also of mens outward lookyngs, & inward thinkynges.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 314 Why how now hoa; awake? why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking ? View more context for this quotation
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun]
to-hopec888
weenOE
hopea1225
thoughta1350
opiniona1425
attentc1430
looking1440
presume?a1500
beliefa1522
expectation1527
expection1532
looking for1532
looking after?1537
expecting1568
imagination1582
expectance1593
suppose1596
expect1597
expectancy1609
apprehensiona1616
contemplationa1631
prospect1665
supposition1719
speculationa1797
augury1871
preperception1871
1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 1245 Al here lokyng and here goostly desere Is sette his lernyng and doctryne to here.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xi. f. cixv Contrarye to the lokyng of all euill persones, the yearth shal yelde hym again a liuesman on the third day.
a1568 R. Ascham Rep. & Disc. Affaires Germany (?1570) f. 27v The Lansgraue agaynst his lookyng was kept in prison.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin x. 582 The french men were wonderfully troubled with a coluerine.., by which, with other afflictions farre contrary to their looking, they sawe them selues out of all hope to be able to force the towne.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. (ed. 2) 477/2 And indeed ἀπεκδέχεται..notes onely this period to be it, before which the Gospel was not to be so freely preached to the Gentiles and after which it was, and is not to be restrained to their looking, or expecting of it.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, esp. in looking place.
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1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 281v Order me a lokyng place in the play.
a1555 J. Bradford Hurte of hering Masse (?1561) sig. B.iiiiv Take eate..but ye masse is a loking matter, pepe, see, loke stoupe downe before. &c.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iv. ii. 48 But yet my toyl May be rewarded with a looking while.
1677 Counterfeit Bridegroom v. iii. 55 I'le give thee a looking and a thinking time, that is but fair.
1830 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 16 Polite Lit. 83 If windows afforded a looking-place to the fox, why might they not also clap, without losing their claims to antiquity?
1882 ‘Shway Yoe’ Burman I. xvi. 218 The suburb of Rangoon called Kemindine (‘the looking-post’).
1902 Rev. of Reviews 10 Apr. 433/2 This little contrivance I will call a looking machine..transforms the twin images on this bit of pasteboard called a stereograph into real space before my eyes.
1995 Australian (Nexis) 18 Aug. You could..exhibit your complete works..in a gallery containing nothing more than a few tables and chairs, thus converting a looking place into a reading room.
C2. With following adverb, forming nouns of action corresponding to phrasal verbs (see look v.), as looking back, looking out, etc. Occasionally attributive. Cf. looking forward n.
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a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 119 (MED) Euel accidentis..as..þe flix of þe wombe, or ellis crokidnes, or ellis lokynge asquynt [L. obliquitas] of þe iȝen.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EE Whiche..for ones lokyng backewarde, was tourned in to a salte stone.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Despectio, a lokynge downewarde.
1603 T. Powell (title) Welch Bayte to spare Prouender. Or, A looking backe vpon the Times past.
a1699 J. Fraser Memoirs (1738) iii. 66 There remained a secret and quiet Hope Things would be well, and a Looking up to him.
1788 W. Huntington Servant of Lord 39 Next comes a dreadful expectation of some evident token of perdition; and there is a looking for it, and a looking out after it.
1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 361 Which evidence you owed To some slight weariness, some looking-off Or start-away.
1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet I. xi. 183 A dog would..squat upon his looking-out place.
1914 H. Stuck Ten Thousand Miles with Dog Sled v. 126 He did it ill, with constant exasperating stoppings and lookings-back.
1921 W. Deeping House of Adventure (1922) xxx. 220 Their sacrament was a little silence, a pause, a looking backwards and forwards, a holding of hands, a gentle generous emotion.
2008 Poetry Rev. Winter 117 Greenfields locates the heart of things—of desire, of looking-back, of the past, of love—in how language is reminted by the process of writing of its fondest desires.
C3. † looking unto n. Obsolete care, attention.
looking after n. †(a) hope, expectation (obsolete); (b) the action of tending or taking care of someone or something; care, attention.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun]
to-hopec888
weenOE
hopea1225
thoughta1350
opiniona1425
attentc1430
looking1440
presume?a1500
beliefa1522
expectation1527
expection1532
looking for1532
looking after?1537
expecting1568
imagination1582
expectance1593
suppose1596
expect1597
expectancy1609
apprehensiona1616
contemplationa1631
prospect1665
supposition1719
speculationa1797
augury1871
preperception1871
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun]
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getec1175
gomec1175
tenta1300
curec1300
keepa1325
diligence1340
heed1357
tentivenessa1382
observancec1390
businessa1398
reasona1398
attendancec1400
resporta1413
curiosityc1430
mindingc1449
reckc1475
respect1509
regardshipa1513
looking unto1525
peradvertencea1529
looking toa1535
solicitudea1535
looking after?1537
solicitudeness1547
care1548
solicitnessc1550
caring1556
heedfulness1561
solicitateness1562
hofulness1566
regard1573
charishness1587
on-waiting1590
heediness1596
take-heed1596
respectiveness1598
observationa1616
solicitousness1636
heeding1678
curiousness1690
solicitation1693
attention1741
craftsmanship1850
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > care for or looking after
keepingc1330
nursing?1533
looking after?1537
tendance1580
tendment1597
caretaking1765
tendancya1774
caringa1797
mothering1868
?1537 Pystles & Gospels in Eng. sig. P.iiijv The lokynge after [L. expectatio] of iuste men is gladnes: and the hope of wycked men shal perysshe.
1650 O. Cromwell Let. 17 July in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 289 O, how good it is to close with Christ betimes; there is nothing else worth the looking after.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lix. 397 His Temper wants looking after, and his Notices of every thing are strong and significant.
1872 Melbourne Punch 18 Apr. 121/2 The subscriptions that are so small as to..require a good deal of looking after.
1962 I. Murdoch Unoffic. Rose xxvii. 265 He shrank from any close-quarters looking-after of her.
2013 Racing Post (Nexis) 6 Mar. 8 He needs a bit of looking after mentally, to keep him right.
looking for n. expectation; an instance of this.Chiefly in religious contexts, with reference or allusion to Hebrews 10:27 (see quot. 1611).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun]
to-hopec888
weenOE
hopea1225
thoughta1350
opiniona1425
attentc1430
looking1440
presume?a1500
beliefa1522
expectation1527
expection1532
looking for1532
looking after?1537
expecting1568
imagination1582
expectance1593
suppose1596
expect1597
expectancy1609
apprehensiona1616
contemplationa1631
prospect1665
supposition1719
speculationa1797
augury1871
preperception1871
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > instance of
expectation1523
looking for1532
aspect1587
looking forwarda1646
prejudice1748
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. x. f. cccx There remayneth no more sacrifice for synnes, but a fearfull lokynge for iudgement [Gk. ἐκδοχὴ κρίσεως].]
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere f. cccxxi There is not nowe lefte vs any sacrifyce for synnes, but a terryble expeccyon and lokynge for of iudgement.
1611 Bible (King James) Heb. x. 27 A certaine fearefull looking for of iudgement. View more context for this quotation
1796 Evangelical Mag. Jan. 6 I was filled with a fearful looking-for of judgment, and fiery indignation to consume me as God's adversary.
1841 T. Ragg Heber (ed. 2) 129 Human hearts were failing them for fear, And for the looking for of stranger things Then coming on the earth.
1918 J. D. Jones If Man Die 63 The chief element in that fear of death which keeps men all their lifetime in bondage is that which is due to the sense of sin and the looking for of judgement.
1994 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 13 For them there could be only a fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation.
looking in n. [after listening-in at listening n. 2] now chiefly historical the activity of watching television; = viewing n. 2; cf. to look in 3 at look v. Phrasal verbs 1, looker-in n. (b) at looker n. Compounds 2.
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1926 Times of India 28 Jan. 12/4 ‘Looking in’, a new verbal term denotes the receiving of a television programme which will begin to be broadcast from a small London station next week.
1951 Ann. Reg. 1950 414 From America came alarming reports of the craze for looking-in.
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 156 An undiscriminating looking-in, night after night, at T.V.
2001 M. Bal (title) Looking in: the art of viewing.
looking on n. observation or contemplation, esp. when uninvolved or detached; an act or instance of this; in early use in †to give (a person) the looking on: to observe (a person) without becoming involved in what he or she is doing (obsolete).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > looking at or beholding
beholdinga1225
considerationc1386
advisementa1393
aspecta1398
especcion14..
viewc1450
contemplationc1500
looking ona1516
viewing1548
eyeing1550
perspectionc1550
theoria1590
conspection1611
onlooking1637
spectation1638
aspection1646
prospecting1677
onlook1800
spectating1942
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > abstain from interfering with > and observe a person
looking ona1516
a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens ii. sig. e.viv Syr I shall gyue you the lokynge on.
1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.vii A thyng that is very rude and skant worthe the lokynge on.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxiiijv His aduise and counsell, whiche vnlesse they woulde folowe, he would gyue them the lokyng on.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 45 Any man thought worthy the looking on.
a1736 R. Kane Campaigns King William & Queen Anne (1745) 68 In the Siege of which [sc. the fortress of Menin] our Regiment was employ'd, when we paid for our looking on at Ramillies.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 113 That loss but made us love the more, With farther lookings on.
1948 P. Grainger Let. 31 Oct. in All-round Man (1994) 222 Your Pastoral Symphony, which did not seem to me (as so many nature-poems do) a mere looking-on..at nature.
2012 S. M. Campbell Early Heidegger's Philos. of Life 1 When philosophy is construed as theoretical detachment from experience—a looking on at how people live and speak from some exterior point—then it is no longer connected to life.
looking over n. inspection; an act or instance of this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun]
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search1415
probationc1422
ensearchingc1430
surview1432
enserchise1436
overseeingc1449
sight1452
hearkeninga1483
discuting1483
ensearcha1509
inquiry1512
upsightc1515
perusing1556
perpending1558
overlooking1565
interview1567
trial1575
peruse1578
visitation1583
perspective?a1586
overviewing1590
looking over1599
sounding1599
perusal1604
supervise1604
disquisition1605
expiscation1605
prospect1625
ravellinga1626
disquiry1628
disquisitive1660
perpendment1667
inspecting1788
sleuthing1900
casing1928
1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. D7v I Doe presume..to offer vp to your good liking these small indeuours far vnworthy the looking ouer of your so worthy selfe.
1671 J. Ogilby tr. O. Dapper et al. Atlas Chinensis 233 The Conbon was not at the looking over of the Presents.
1772 C. Varlo New Syst. Husb. (ed. 4) III. App. ii. 305 I have made my remarks very minutely, upon the looking over of which, and comparing my journal with all the observations and computations I can make, [etc.].
1895 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Gaz. 29 July 2/1 Mowgli always attended a Looking-over.
1915 Proc. Dept. Superintendence (National Educ. Assoc. U.S.) 140 It [sc. the word ‘survey’] has always meant a looking-over, and it is to be hoped that in its new educational application it will continue to mean the kind of looking-over of everything that does not overlook.
2001 H. McLean Details from Larger Canvas 85 As I sat across from him I gave him a looking over.
looking to n. care; (in later use chiefly) attention, consideration.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun]
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carefulnessa1000
getec1175
gomec1175
tenta1300
curec1300
keepa1325
diligence1340
heed1357
tentivenessa1382
observancec1390
businessa1398
reasona1398
attendancec1400
resporta1413
curiosityc1430
mindingc1449
reckc1475
respect1509
regardshipa1513
looking unto1525
peradvertencea1529
looking toa1535
solicitudea1535
looking after?1537
solicitudeness1547
care1548
solicitnessc1550
caring1556
heedfulness1561
solicitateness1562
hofulness1566
regard1573
charishness1587
on-waiting1590
heediness1596
take-heed1596
respectiveness1598
observationa1616
solicitousness1636
heeding1678
curiousness1690
solicitation1693
attention1741
craftsmanship1850
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 49/1 The yonger, which besides his infancie that also nedeth good loking to, hath a while ben so sore diseased [etc.].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. 568 They that were fallen sick perished for want of looking to and diligent attendance.
1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. 18 Col. They say he was an honest Man. Lady Answ. Yes, with good looking to.
1840 I. Butt Irish Life III. xii. 292 Mr. O'Donnell's lucrative agency would be worth your looking to.
1914 E. A. Parry Law & Poor x. 198 It was the slackness of some of the judges..that wanted looking to.
2007 R. Osborne Rossini x. 92 Affairs in Bologna needed looking to before what promised to be a protracted stay abroad.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun]
yemec893
carefulnessa1000
getec1175
gomec1175
tenta1300
curec1300
keepa1325
diligence1340
heed1357
tentivenessa1382
observancec1390
businessa1398
reasona1398
attendancec1400
resporta1413
curiosityc1430
mindingc1449
reckc1475
respect1509
regardshipa1513
looking unto1525
peradvertencea1529
looking toa1535
solicitudea1535
looking after?1537
solicitudeness1547
care1548
solicitnessc1550
caring1556
heedfulness1561
solicitateness1562
hofulness1566
regard1573
charishness1587
on-waiting1590
heediness1596
take-heed1596
respectiveness1598
observationa1616
solicitousness1636
heeding1678
curiousness1690
solicitation1693
attention1741
craftsmanship1850
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxviii. f. xxxivv/2 Guysshart Albygon loste his prisoner by neglygence, he bledde so sore that he dyed for defaute of lokyng vnto [Fr. le laissa tant seignier queil en mourut].
1665 Orders Ld. Mayor London in D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year (1722) 52 If any Person visited do fortune by negligent looking unto..to come..from a Place infected.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lookingadj.
/ˈlʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlʊkɪŋ/ 1. As the second element of compounds formed with an adjective or (now rarely) noun: having an appearance or looks of a specified kind.For more established compounds, as German-looking, good-looking, natural-looking, nice-looking, plain-looking, etc.: see the first element.In quot. 1781 with the interrogative pronoun what standing for a noun.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > having specific appearance
huedc1000
beseemeda1250
lookingc1330
well-faringc1330
well-beseenc1374
farranda1400
homely?a1439
ill-favoured1530
seeming1590
looked1597
ill-looking1633
complexioned1639
ill-lookeda1640
leonine1660
plain-looking1744
natural-looking1810
anthropoid1881
thuggish-looking1903
new look1950
c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) l. 1985 in PMLA (1931) 46 141/1 (MED) William þe red king..was..a wel sterne lokeand [a1400 BL Add. lokynge, c1432 Cambr. Dd.14.2 lokande] gome.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. 31 Big looking like a doughty Doucepere.
1629 A. Top Bk. Prayses (new ed.) ii. lxxxvi. sig. S2v The high and fearfull looking men.
1652 N. Homes Plain Dealing iii. 32 The mercy of God to the Saints on Earth in this unlikely looking providence.
1749 J. Burton Genuine Jrnl. Miraculous Escape Young Chevalier 26 I think I never saw such an impudent-looking Woman as Kingsborough is walking with.
1781 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 424 I care not what looking Horse I have; I never think of his appearance.
1782 K. P. Moritz in Brit. Tourist (1809) IV. 33 Paddington, a very village-looking little town, at the west end of London.
1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. ii. 83 Phylica ericoides..a small heath-looking shrub from the Cape.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 803/2 A book printed in a dull, muddy, everyday-looking type.
1881 W. H. Mallock Romance 19th Cent. II. 5 He was a small dissipated-looking man.
1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. xxi. 211 Boughton, a gloomy French château-looking house.
1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xiv. 195 There was..something inhuman and possessed-looking in their foreign, southern-shaped faces, so much more formed and demon-looking than northern faces.
1966 New Statesman 5 Aug. 210/2 The incredible looking Miss Loren in Dior clothes.
2004 M. Crichton State of Fear 24 The man standing in the doorway was pale-complected, slender, and American-looking, with a blond crew cut.
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a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 102 in Poems (1981) 7 For wyfis sayis that lukand werk is licht.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. Direct. 116 Tyll idyll folk full lycht beyn lukand warkis.
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a. That looks; that casts a look or glance.
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1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. 510 The looking eie, and the lusting heart further after our neighbours wife, than they should.
1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis 162 Thy glorious face shall satisfie The longing of my looking eye.
a1665 W. Guthrie Heads of Serm. preached at Finnick (1680) 19 If we believed that any that troubleth the People of God, do as ill as if they took God on the looking face?
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets ii. 13 I scarce can trow my looking Een, Ye'r grown sae braw.
1833 T. Chalmers On Power, Wisdom, & Goodness of God II. ii. iii. 253 Attention is the looking organ of the mind—the link of communication between man's moral and man's intellectual nature.
a1860 J. Younger Autobiogr. (1881) xxiii. 281 I picked up a view of my Lady Mawkin sitting musing in her form, and..fired in her looking face.
1901 Pacific Monthly Mar. 216/2 The looking eye gets a continuous series of impressions. The camera gets one only.
2000 E. Rosen Anat. Buzz (2002) iii. 30 Having more pairs of looking eyes increases the likelihood that all birds will be fed, and on a continuous basis.
b. With adverb of direction. That looks or gazes in the specified manner or direction. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in outlooking adj.
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1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. ciii. 204 An out-looking eye.
1641 J. Short Soliloquies Theologicall 152 The soule..that is not penetrating, bottom-searching, inward-looking, is like to fall low for want of looking low.
1763 J. Macpherson Temora vii. 202 Backward-looking armies fly; and mighty deeds are half-hid, in the bright gleams of steel.
1848 H. Mann Let. Mar. in Slavery 5 In their upward-looking aspiration.., or in their downward-looking, prone-rushing, and brutish appetites and passions, what shall these millions of our fellow-creatures be?
1863 Q. Rev. Oct. 332 It depends greatly on a man's physical health and animal spirits whether he shall be of a large, calm, outward-looking nature and objective mind, or shall be a brooding subjective being.
1943 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Lucky Poet v. 223 I was very soon to recognize in myself a spirit to which such backward-looking resignationism and sentimental dreaming were utterly false and foreign.
1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 592 He went through them like an executioner, all with a downward-looking smile and shy little shakes of his head.
2007 C. Nouvian Deep 50/1 This marvelous fish..rotates its eyes from upward-looking to forward-looking in order to keep its eyes on the prey before opening its mouth.
4. † b. looking up: having an upward aspect or direction; sloping upward. Cf. to look up 4 at look v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.
a. With adverb of direction. Having a specified aspect; facing in a specified direction.
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the world > space > direction > [adjective] > having specific aspect
aspected1601
looking1618
sited1665
affronted1707
orientated1857
oriented1875
1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. ix. 75 From hence neerer the line or more northward looking from the streights of Magellane, you come into the golden kingdomes of Peru, Brazill, and Caribana.
1683 J. Reid Scots Gard'ner v. 24 If you would make the South-looking Wall semicircles in it, that would conduce much to the advantadge of the Fruit.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch 76 The early flush of dawn tinged her eastward-looking lattice with crimson.
1884 W. Black Judith Shakespeare xx. 226 There was a touch of it on the westward-looking gables of one or two cottages.
1921 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. I. xxix. §10 531 Benedict took up his quarters in a cave in the high southward-looking cliff that overhangs the stream.
2012 H. Hens Performance Based Building Design I. ix. 190 The outside and inside surface of a south-west looking one-brick outer wall.
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having upward direction
upwarda1616
ascentive1627
looking up1649
upturned1839
uppish1862
up1869
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > upwards
looking up1649
ramped1775
1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver ix. 52 The other [spade] may be Six Inches wide, whose Tree must be made more compasse, and looking up, by farre, then your usuall Spades are.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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