Verb

(head)

(stare)

Verb

(head)

(look)

Verb

(en verb)

To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

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To appear, to seem.

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*170? , (Joseph Addison), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. , Dedication

*:but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.

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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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*2012 , Chelsea 6-0 Wolves

*:Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.

(lb) To give an appearance of being.

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To search for, to try to find.

To face or present a view.

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*Bible, (w) xi. 1

*:the east gatewhich looketh eastward

To expect or anticipate.

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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:looking each hour into death's mouth to fall

(lb) To express or manifest by a look.

*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

*:Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.

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To make sure of, to see to.

*1898 , (Homer), (Samuel Butler) (translator),

*:"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.

To show oneself in looking.

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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:My toes look through the overleather.

To look at; to turn the eyes toward.

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..

To seek; to search for.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Looking my love, I go from place to place.

To expect.

:(Shakespeare)

To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.

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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:A spirit fit to start into an empire, / And look the world to law.

(senseid)(lb) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.

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