[f. LOOK v. + -ING2.]
1. That looks or gazes. rare. † Looking up: having an upward aspect or direction; sloping.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 63. The other [spade] may be Six Inches wide, whose Tree must be made more compass and looking up, by far, than your usuall Spades are.
1722. Ramsay, Three Bonnets, II. 12. I scarce can trow my looking een, Ye’re grown sae braw.
2. Forming combinations. a. with a preceding adjective, substantive (now rare), or phrase. (See also GOOD-LOOKING, ILL-LOOKING.)
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., V. i. 240. A needy, hollow-ey’d, sharpe-looking wretch.
1756. Mrs. F. Brooke, Old Maid, No. 25. 213. A well looking old woman … asked from the upper window, who he pleased to want?
1781. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, Aug. I care not what looking horse I have; I never think of his appearance.
1782. Moritz, in Brit. Tourist (1809), IV. 33. Paddington, a very village-looking little town, at the west end of London.
1802. Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1816), I xviii. 148. A hard, stout looking man.
1818. Lady Morgan, Autobiog. (1859), 249. The celebrity entered: a grave-looking elderly gentleman.
1825. Greenhouse Comp., II. 83. Phylica ericoides … a small heath-looking shrub from the Cape.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 803/2. A book printed in a dull, muddy, everyday-looking type.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes (1858), 360. Most rude, chaotic, all these Speeches are; but most earnest-looking.
1881. W. H. Mallock, Romance 19th Cent., II. 5. He was a small dissipated-looking man.
b. with adverbs of direction: Having a certain aspect or direction.
1884. Black, Jud. Shakes., xx. There was a touch of it on the westward-looking gables of one or two cottages.
