Word Meanings - OUTLOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To face down; to outstare. To outlook conquest, and to win renown. Shak. 2. To inspect throughly; to select. Cotton.

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• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• RENOWNEDLY
  With renown.
• INSPECTIVE
  Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• RENOWNLESS
  Without renown; inglorius.
• RENOWNER
  One who gives renown.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• INSPECTRESS
  A female inspector.
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• COTTONSEED MEAL
  A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
• SELECTIVE
  Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
• COTTONOUS
  Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
• COTTON
  1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. It cottons well; it can not choose but bear A pretty nap. Family of Love. 2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would Lyly. 3. To unite; to agree; to
• INSPECTORATE
  Inspectorship.
• SELECTEDLY
  With care and selection.
• SELECTMAN
  One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated
• SUPERINSPECT
  To over see; to superintend by inspection. Maydman.
• REINSPECT
  To inspect again.
• IRRENOWNED
  Not renowned.