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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Look that ye bind them fast --Shak. Look if it be my daughter. --Talfourd. 6. To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as look out of the window while I speak to you Sometimes used figuratively. My toes look through the overleather. --Shak. 7. To await the appearance of anything to expect; to anticipate. Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall. --Spenser. {To look about}, to look on all sides, or in different directions. {To look about one}, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded. {To look after}. a To attend to to take care of as to look after children. b To expect; to be in a state of expectation. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. --Luke xxi. 26. c To seek; to search. My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. --Woodward. {To look at}, to direct the eyes toward so that one sees, or as if to see as to look at a star; hence to observe, examine, consider; as to look at a matter without prejudice. {To look black}, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. --Holinshed. {To look down on} or {upon}, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. {To look for}. a To expect; as to look for news by the arrival of a ship. ``Look now for no enchanting voice.'' --Milton. b To seek for to search for as to look for lost money, or lost cattle. {To look forth}. a To look out of something as from a window. b To threaten to come out --Jer. vi 1. (Rev. Ver.). {To look into}, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as to look into the works of nature; to look into one's conduct or affairs. {To look on}. a To regard; to esteem. Her friends would look on her the worse. --Prior. b To consider; to view; to conceive of to think of I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. --Dryden. c To be a mere spectator. I'll be a candleholder, and look on --Shak. {To look out}, to be on the watch; to be careful; as the seaman looks out for breakers. {To look through}. a To see through b To search; to examine with the eyes. {To look to} or {unto}. a To watch; to take care of ``Look well to thy herds.'' --Prov. xxvii. 23. b To resort to with expectation of receiving something to expect to receive from as the creditor may look to surety for payment. ``Look unto me and be ye saved.'' --Is. xlv. 22. {To look up}, to search for or find out by looking; as to look up the items of an account. {To look up to}, to respect; to regard with deference. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Unto \Un"to\, prep. [OE. unto; un- (only in unto, until) unto, as far as + to to this un- is akin to AS ?? until, OFries und OS und until, conj. (cf. OS unt? unto, OHG. unzi), Goth. und unto, until. See {To}, and cf {Until}.] 1. To -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See {To}. 2. Until; till. [Obs.] ``He shall abide it unto the death of the priest.'' --Num. xxxv. 25. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Unto \Un"to\, conj. Until; till. [Obs.] ``Unto this year be gone.'' --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South. 8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak. 9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away to leave to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come I will let you go that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away --Ex. viii. 28. 10. To pass away to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott. 11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York. His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow --Dryden. 12. To have recourse; to resort; as to go to law. Note: Go is used in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which and not in the verb lies the principal force of the expression; as to go against to go into to go out to go aside, to go astray, etc {Go to}, come move go away -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical. {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired. {To go about}. a To set about to enter upon a scheme of action to undertake. ``They went about to slay him.'' --Acts ix 29. They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. b (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. {To go abraod}. a To go to a foreign country. b To go out of doors. c To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23. {To go against}. a To march against; to attack. b To be in opposition to to be disagreeable to {To go ahead}. a To go in advance. b To go on to make progress; to proceed. {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}. {To go aside}. a To withdraw; to retire. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place --Luke. ix 10. b To go from what is right to err. --Num. v. 29. {To go back on}. a To retrace (one's path or footsteps). b To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] {To go below} (Naut), to go below deck. {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense to pander. {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}. {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit. {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as the mast went by the board. {To go down}. a To descend. b To go below the horizon; as the sun has gone down c To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc d To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange. {To go far}. a To go to a distance. b To have much weight or influence. {To go for}. a To go in quest of b To represent; to pass for c To favor; to advocate. d To attack; to assault. [Low] e To sell for to be parted with for (a price). {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing. {To go forth}. a To depart from a place b To be divulged or made generally known to emanate. The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv 2. {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger. {To go in}, to engage in to take part [Colloq.] {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access --John x. 9. {To go in for}. [Colloq.] a To go for to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). b To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) c To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). d To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens. {To go in to} or {unto}. a To enter the presence of --Esther iv 16. b To have sexual intercourse with [Script.] {To go into}. a To speak of investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). b To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). {To go large}. (Naut) See under {Large}. {To go off}. a To go away to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you --Shak. b To cease; to intermit; as this sickness went off c To die. --Shak. d To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc e To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of f To pass off to take place to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do --Mrs. Caskell. {To go on}. a To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as to go on reading. b To be put or drawn on to fit over as the coat will not go on {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay. {To go out}. a To issue forth from a place b To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak. What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi 7, 8, 9. c To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news fame etc d To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end as the light has gone out Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison. {To go over}. a To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv 22. Let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. b To read, or study; to examine; to review; as to go over one's accounts. If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing --Tillotson. c To transcend; to surpass. d To be postponed; as the bill went over for the session. e (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. {To go through}. a To accomplish; as to go through a work b To suffer; to endure to the end as to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. c To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. d To strip or despoil one of his property. [Slang] e To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the end to complete. {To go to ground}. a To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. b To fall in battle. {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. {To go under}. a To set -- said of the sun. b To be known or recognized by (a name title, etc.). c To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail [Slang] {To go upon}, to act upon as a foundation or hypothesis. {To go with}. a To accompany. b To coincide or agree with c To suit; to harmonize with {To go} ( {well}, {ill}, or {hard}) {with}, to affect one in such manner. {To go without}, to be or to remain, destitute of {To go wrong}. a To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. b To depart from virtue. c To happen unfortunately. d To miss success. {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold to release.
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