look vb. (obs. and idiomatic uses are)
1.
to take
care, see
Tp. IV. i. 51
“ thou
be true,”
R3 III. iv. 77
“ that it be
done,”
Oth. IV. iii. 9
“look it be
done.”
2.
to expect Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 370
“The gifts she l-s from
me”; with infin. (freq.) Tp. V. i. 292; with
clause R2 I. iii. 243, Sonn. xxii. 4.
3.
prefixed to an
interrogative pron. or adv., or a relative conj., to
form indefinite relatives= ‘whoever’,
‘whatever’, ‘whenever’,
‘however’
Err. II. i. 12
“Look when I serve him
so, he takes it ill,”
Troil. I. iii. 79
“look how many,”
Sonn. xxxvii. 13
“Look what is best, that
best I wish in thee.”
4.
to seek, search for,
‘look for’ Wiv. IV. ii.
85,
AYL. II. v. 33
“He hath been all this
day to look you,”
All'sW. III. vi. 114,
Lr. III. iii. 15 (Qq
“seeke”).
5.
to tend or promise
“to”
Cor. III. iii.
29.
