7. To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.

Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall.

Spenser.

To look about, to look on all sides, or in different directions. -- To

look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect

or guarded. -- To look after. (a) To attend to; to take care of; as, to

look after children. (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation.

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those

things which are coming on the earth.

Luke xxi. 26.

(c) To seek; to search.

My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point

forth the place where to it is now retreated.

Woodward.

-- To look at, to direct the eyes toward so that one sees, or as if to

see; as, to look at a star; hence, to observe, examine, consider; as,

to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to

scowl; to have a threatening appearance.

The bishops thereat repined, and looked black.

Holinshed.

-- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to

regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To expect; as,

to look for news by the arrival of a ship. "Look now for no enchanting

voice." Milton. (b) To seek for; to search for; as, to look for lost

money, or lost cattle. -- To look forth. (a) To look out of something,

as from a window. (b) To threaten to come out. Jer. vi. 1. (Rev. Ver.).

-- To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine;

as, to look into the works of nature; to look into one's conduct or

affairs. -- To look on. (a) To regard; to esteem.

Her friends would look on her the worse.

Prior.

(b) To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think of.

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