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forecaftle at fen, to watch for any dangerous objefts lying 
near her track ; the mate of the watch accordingly calls 
often from the quarter-deck, “ Look out afore there !” to 
the perfons appointed to this fervice. Falconer. 
LOOK'-OUT, in geography, a cape on the coaff of 
North Carolina, being the fouthern part of a long, infu- 
lated, and narrow, ftrip of land, eaft of Core Sound. Its 
north point forms the fouth fide of Ocrecoch-inlet, which 
leads into Pamlico-found ; north-eait of Cape Fear, and 
fouth of Cape Hatteras, in about lat. 34. 50. N,. Its ex¬ 
cellent harbour has been filled up with land fince the year 
1777 -—A cape on the fouthern coatl ot Hudfon’s Ba}', in 
New South Wales, eaft-fouth-eaft of the mouth of Severn- 
river. Lat. 56. N. Ion. 84. W. 
LOOKE, Higher and Lower, two hamlets near Ab- 
botlbury, Dorfet. 
LOOK'ER, / One that looks: 
For through infufion of celeftial powre 
The duller earth it quickneth with delight, 
And lifefull fpirits privily doth poure 
Through all tire parts, that to the lookers' .fight 
They leem to pleafe. Spenfer's Hymns. 
LOOKER-ON',/ Spectator, notagent.—The Spaniard’s 
valour lieth in the eyes of the looker-on-, but the Englilh 
valour lieth about the foldier’s heart: a valour of glory 
tutd a valour of natural courage are two things. Bacon. 
The people love him ; 
The lookers-on, and the enquiring vulgar, 
Will talk themfelves to action. Denham's Sophy. 
LOOK'ING-GLASS, f. A plain polifhed glafs fpecu- 
Rim, or mirror, to one fide of which a plate of tin-foil is 
made to adhere by means of quickfilver5 which, being 
impervious to the light, reflets its rays, and fo exhibits 
the images of objefts placed before it.—The furface of 
the lake of Nemi is never ruffled with the lead breath of 
wind, which perhaps, together with the clearnefs of its 
waters, gave it formerly the name of Diana’s looking-glafs. 
Addifon. 
Command a mirror hither ftraight. 
That it may fhow me what a face I have. 
Go fome of you and fetch a looking-glafs. Skakefpeare. 
For the phenomena of looking-glafs mirrors, fee the ar¬ 
ticle Optics 3 and for the molt approved method of po- 
Jiffling and iilvering looking-glafles, fee Glass, vol. viii. 
p. 605. 
LOOK'ING-GLASS PLANT; fee Heritiera. Ve¬ 
nus's ; fee Campanula. 
LOOKNAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
fifteen miles fouth-weft of Kairabad. 
LOOIvSEENGA'H, a tow n of Bengal: thirty-five miles 
north-well of Ramgur. 
LOOL, f. in metallurgy, a veftel made to receive the 
wafhings of ores or metals. The heavier or more metal¬ 
line parts of the ores remain in the trough in which they 
are waflied 3 the lighter and more earthy run off with the 
water, but fettle in the lool. 
LOOM, /, [from glomus, a bottom of thread. Minfew. 
Lome is a general name for a tool or inftrument. Junius.] 
The frame in which the weavers work their cloth.—He 
mult leave no uneven thread in his loom, or, by indulging 
to any one fort of reproveable difeourfe himfelf, defeat all 
his endeavours againlt the reft. Government of the Tongue. 
A thoufand maidens ply the purple loom. 
To weave the bed and deck the regal room. Prior. 
Looms are of various ftruftnres, accommodated to the 
various kinds of materials to be woven., and the various 
manner of weaving them 3 viz. for woollens, filks, linens, 
cottons, cloths of gold, and other works, as tapeltry, rib¬ 
bands, dockings, Sec. See the article YVeavtng. 
LOOM, f A bird.—A loom is as big as a goofe; of a 
4 &rk colour, dappled with white fpots on the neck, back. 
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and wings; each feather marked near the point with tw« 
fpots; they breed in Farr Ifland. Grew's Mufcum. 
LOOM, a town of Norway : lixty miles fouth-eaft of 
Romfdal. 
To LOOM, v. n. [leoman, Sax.] To appear at fea. If 
a (hip appears big, when at a diftance, they fay fhe looms, 
or appears a great fail. The term is alfo ufed to denote 
the mdiftinff appearance of any diltant object through a 
thick or mifty atmofphere. 
LOOM-GATE,/ A gentle eafy gale of wind, in 
which a fflip can carry her top-fails a-trip. 
LOOMA'KA, a town of Bootan ; twenty-eisrht miles 
fouth of Taflafudon. 
LOON, /, [ufed only in Scotland.] A forty fellow ; a 
fcoundrel; a rafeal.—This young lord had an old cun¬ 
ning rogue, or as the Scots call it, a falfe loon, of a grand¬ 
father, that one might call a Jack of all trades. Arbuthnot's 
Llifory of John Bull. 
LOO NENBURGH, a town of New York : fifteen miles 
north of Kinglton. 
LOONGHE'E, a town of the kingdom of Birmab, on 
the Irawaddy. The meaning of the word is Great Cable, 
and is /aid to be fo called from a ligament of (lone w hich 
pafles from a rock to the oppofite/tore, and which the 
inhabitants believe was once a rope, which, floating down 
the ftream, was flopped and petrified. Here is a cele¬ 
brated temple; fifty-five miles north of Brome. Lat in. 
42. N. 
LOONPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: forty 
miles eaft of Junagur. 
LOON'ZAY. See Mayahoun. 
LOOP, /. [from looptn, Dutch, to run.] A double 
through which a firing orlace is drawn 5 an ornamental 
double or fringe.—An old fellow (hall wear this or that 
fort of cut in his cloaths with great integrity, while all 
the reft of the world are degenerated into buttons, poc¬ 
kets, and loops. Addifon. 
Make me to fee it, or at leaf! to prove it. 
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop, 
To hang a doubt on. Shakefpcarc's Othello. 
^Formerly alfo] A loop hole.—Some dy’d, fome at the 
loops durft leant out peep. Fairfax. 
Loot, in the iron-works, is a part of a fow or block of 
call iron broken or melted off from the reft, and prepared 
for the forge or hammer. The ufual method is, to break 
off the loop of about three quarters of a hundred weight. 
This loop they take up with their llinging-tongs, and beat 
it with iron fledges upon an iron plate near the fire, that 
fo it may not fall to pieces, hut be in a condition to be 
carried under the hammer. It is then placed under the 
hammers and, a little water being drawn to make the 
hammer move but foftly, it is beat very gently, and by this 
means the drols and foulnefs are forced off 3 and after this 
they draw more and more water by degrees, and beat it 
more and more till they bring it to a four-fquare mafs, of 
about two feet long, which they call a bloom. 
LOOP HE'AD, or Cape Lean, a cape on the coaft of 
Ireland at the mouth of the Shannon. Lat. 54. 32. N. 
Ion. 9. 49. W. 
LOO'P-HOLE,/ Apertures hole to give a paffage.— 
Walk not near yon corner houfe by night; for there are 
blunderbuftes planted in every ioop-hole, that go off at tlje 
fqueaking of a fiddle. Dryden's Spanijh Fryar , 
The Indian herdfman, fbunning heat, 
Shelters in cool, and tends his pafluring herds. 
At loop-holes cut through thickelt fhades. Milton. 
Loop-holes , in fea-language, are holes made in the coamings 
of the hatches of a fhip, to fire mulkets through in a dole 
fight.—A fhift ; an evafion : 
Needlefs, or needful, I not now contend, 
For ltill you have a loop-hole for a friend. Dryden. 
LOO'P-HOLED, adj. Fu 4 of holes; full of openings, 
or void lpaces: 
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