Word Meanings - PERSPICIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of looking sharply. Bailey.

Related words: (words related to PERSPICIENCE)

• LOOKDOWN
  See
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• LOOKING-GLASS
  A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• LOOKING
  Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS
• PRELOOK
  To look forward. Surrey.
• UNLOOKED-FOR
  Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.
• TALOOK; TALUK
  A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.
• TALOOKDAR; TALUKDAR
  A proprietor of a talook.
• UNLOOKED
  Not observed or foreseen; unexpected; -- generally with for. "Unlooked success." Denham. She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. Pope.
• UPLOOK
  To look or gaze up.