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/lˈʊkɪŋ fɔr/ Listen

noun

Looking n.

The act of one who looks; a glance.

The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face. (Obs.) "All dreary was his cheer and his looking."

Looking for, anticipation; expectation. "A certain fearful looking for of judgment."

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Etymology of 'Looking for'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... soldier,—for such he was,—and gave him a good box on the ear with me, instead of her hand. This scared him so effectually that he threw down the silver, and scampered off after his companions who were in the stable looking for horses which they meant to take for themselves. Dolly, in the mean time, caught up the silver, ran out of another door into a wood near the house, where she hid herself and the silver till the ...

— Who Spoke Next • Eliza Lee Follen

... in a little while, Ted. Probably just a group of teen-agers looking for thrills." He laughed drily. "They'll end up with blanked memories and new faces like those who ...

— Second Sight • Basil Eugene Wells

... quits looking for it, and assures everybody, by the general method of conducting the business, that there will be no chance to oust this or that man. That each man will be retained in his place if he will but give reasonable application to the general interest of the organization and the particular work ...

— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness

... the Persian Gulf, but also between the Rivers. The Kings of Babylon, who opposed Ashurnatsirpal and Shalmaneser II, seem to have been of Chaldaean extraction; and although their successors, down to 800 B.C., acknowledged the suzerainty of Assyria, they ever strove to repudiate it, looking for help to Elam or the western desert tribes. The times, however, were not quite ripe. The century closed with the reassertion of Assyrian power in Babylon ...

— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth

... his sobs, he fled from the scene of his disgrace. In one alley and out another he stumbled, looking for a hole in which he could crawl and pour out his pent-up grief. But privacy is a luxury reserved for the rich, and Dan and his kind cannot even claim a place in which ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

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