Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LOOK
LOOK, n.
- Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind. Pain, disgrace and poverty have frightful looks. – Locke.
- The act of looking or seeing. Every look filled him with anguish.
- View; watch. – Swinburne.
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