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the fame way with both eyes, as of men, meet before they 
come into the brain ; but the optick nerves of fuch ani¬ 
mals as do not look the fame way with both eyes, as of fillies, 
do not meet. Newton's Opticks. 
Your queen died : fhe was more worth fuch gazes 
Than what you look on now. Skakefpeare's Winter's Tale. 
To have power of feeing : 
Fate fees thy life lodg’d in a brittle glafs. 
And looks it through, but to it cannot pafs. Dryden. 
To direfl the intellectual eye.—In regard of our deliver¬ 
ance paft, and our danger prefent and to come, let us look 
up to God, and every man reform his own ways. Bacon's 
New Atlas. —We are not only to look at the bare aftion, 
but at the reafon of it. Stilling fleet. —The man only laved 
the pigeon from the hawk, that he might eat it liiinfelf 5 
and, if we look well about us, we (hall find this to be the 
cafe of mod mediations. L'Eflrange. —Every one, if he 
would look into himfelf, would find fotne defeCt of his par¬ 
ticular genius. Locke. —Change a man’s view of things ; 
let him look into the future ftate cf blifs and mifery, and 
fee God, the righteous Judge, ready to render every man 
according to his deed. Locke.— To expebt.-—If he long de¬ 
ferred the march, he mult look to fight another battle be¬ 
fore he could reach Oxford. Clarendon. —To take care; to 
watch.—He that gathered a hundred bufhels of apples, 
had thereby a property in them : he was only to look that 
he ufed them before they fpoiled, elfe he robbed others. 
Locke. —To be directed with regard to any objebl.—Let 
thine eyes lock right on, and let thine eyelids look Ifraight 
before thee. Prov. iv. 25.--To have any particular ap¬ 
pearance ; to l'eem.—That fpotlefs modefty of private and 
public life, that generous fpirit which all other Chriltians 
ought to labour after, Ihould look in us as if they were 
natural. Spratt. 
'*1 took the way 
Which through a path, but fcarcely printed, lay ; 
And look'd as lightly prefs’d by fairy feet. Dryden. 
To have any air, mien, or manner.—Though I cannot tell 
what a man fays ; if he will be fincere, I may eafily know 
what he looks. Collier. 
What hade looks through his eyes ? 
So fhould he look that feems to lpeak things ftrange. Shakcfp. 
To form the air in any particular manner, in regarding or 
beholding.—Thefe look up to you with reverence, and 
would be animated by the fight of him at whofe foul they 
have taken fire in his writings. Swift to Pope. 
I welcome the condition of the time, 
Which cannot look more hideoufly on me. 
Than I have drawn it in my fantafy. Skakefpeare. 
To Look about one. To be alarmed ; to be vigilant.— 
If you find a waiting of your flelb, then look about you, es¬ 
pecially if troubled with a cough, Harvey on Confumptions. 
To Look after. To attend ; to take care of j to ob- 
ferve with care, anxiety, or tendernefs.—Politenefs of 
manners, and knowledge of the world, fhould principally 
b c looked after in a tutor. Locke on Education. —A mother 
was wont to indulge her daughters, when any of them 
delired dogs, fquirrels, or birds; but then they muff be 
Pure to look diligently after them, that they were not ill- 
nfed. Locke. 
To Look for. To expeff.-—If we fin wilfully after that 
we have received the knowledge of the truth, there re- 
maineth no more facrifice for tins, but a certain fearful 
looking for of judgment. Hcb. x. 
Drown’d in deep defpair, 
He dares not offer one repenting prayer; 
Amaz’d he lies, and fadly looks for death. Dryden. 
To Look into. To examine; to lift; to infpect clofelyj 
to oblerve narrowly.—The more frequently and narrowly 
we look into the works of nature, the more occafion we 
fhall have to admire their beauty. Atterbury, 
His nephew’s levies to him appear'd" 
To be a preparation ’gainfl the Polack; 
But, better look'd into, he truly found 
It was again ft her highnefs. Skakefpeare's Hamlet. 
To Lo ok on. To refpeef ; to efteem ; to regard as good 
or bad.—Ambitious men, if they be checked in their de¬ 
fires, become fecretly difeontent, and look upon men and 
matters with an evil eye. Bacon's EJfays. 
If a harmlefs maid 
Should ere a wife become a nurfe. 
Her friends would look on her the worfe. Prior. 
Toconfider; to conceive of; to think.—Do we not all- 
profefs to he of this excellent religion ? but who will be¬ 
lieve that we do fo, that fhall look upon the aflions, and 
confider the lives, of the greateft part of Chriltians ? Til- 
lot f on. —To be a mere idle fpeblator.—LIT be a candle- 
holder, and look on. Skakefpeare. 
To Look over. To examine; to try one by one.—A 
young child, diflrafled with the variety of his play¬ 
games, tired his maid every day to look them over. Locke. 
Look o'er the prefent and the former time, 
If no example of fo vile a crime 
Appears, then mourn. Dryden's Juvenal. 
To Lock out. To fearch ; to feek.—When the thriving 
tradefman has got more than he can well employ in trade, 
his next thoughts are to look out for a purchul'e. Locke .— 
To be on the watch.—Is a man bound to look out fharp to 
plague himfelf? Collier. 
To Look to. To watch ; to take care of.—The dog’s 
running away with the flefli, bids the cook look better to 
it another time. L'Eflrange. 
Who knocks fo loud at door ? 
Look to the door there, Francis. Skakefpeare. 
To LOOK, v. a. To feek ; to fearch for : 
Looking my love, I go from place to place, 
Like a young fawn that late hath loft the hind, 
And feek each where. Spenfer. 
To turn the eye upon.—Let us look one another in the 
face, a Kings xiv. 8.—To influence by looks : 
Such a fpirit nuift be left behind ! 
A fpirit fit to llart into an empire. 
And look the world to law. Dryden's Clements. 
To Look out To difeover by fearching.—Calling my 
eye upon fo many of the general bills as next came to band, 
I found encouragement from them to look out all the bills 
1 could. Graunt. 
LOOK, interj. [properly the imperative mood of the 
verb : it is fometimes look ye.] See ! io i behold ! oblerve ! 
—Look where he comes, and my good man too ; he’s as far 
from jealoufy as I am from giving him caufe. Skakefpeare. 
—Look you ! we that pretend to be fubjeft to a conilitu- 
tion, nuift not carve out our own quality ; for at this rate 
a cobler may make himfelf a lord. Collier on Pride. 
LOOK, J. Air of the face ; mien ; call of the coun¬ 
tenance—And, though death be the king of terrors, yet 
pain, difgrace, and poverty, have frightful looks, able to 
difeompofe moft men. Locke. 
Them gracious Heav’n for nobler ends defign’d. 
Their looks eredted, and their clay refin’d. J. Dryden,jun. 
The aft of looking or feeing : 
Then on the croud he caft a furious Icok, 
And wither’d all their ftrength. Dryden. 
LOOK'-OUT, f. in fea-langnage, denotes a watchful 
attention to fome important object, or event, which is ex- 
pebled to arife from the prefent fituation or a ihip, &c. 
It is principally ufed when there is a probability of danger 
from the real or fuppofed proximity of land, rocks, ene¬ 
mies, &c. There is always a look-out kept on a (hip’s 
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