Word Meanings - EXPECTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.

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• LOOKDOWN
  See
• 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
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• 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.
• EXPECT
  1. To wait for; to await. Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak. 2. To look for ; to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look
• EXPECTORANT
  Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.
• EXPECTANT
  Waiting in expectation; looking for;
• EXPECTANCE; EXPECTANCY
  1. The act of expecting ; expectation. Milton. 2. That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy , one the possession of which
• EXPECTABLE
  That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.
• 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.
• EXPECTORATIVE
  See HARVEY
• EXPECTORATE
  To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
• 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.
• EXPECTIVE
  Expectative. Shipley.
• EXPECTER
  One who expects.
• EXPECTORATION
  1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting. 2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
• EXPECTATIVE
  Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.
• EXPECTEDLY
  In conformity with expectation. Walpole.
• LOOKING
  Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
• EXPECTINGLY
  In state of expectation.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• INEXPECTED
  Unexpected.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• PREEXPECTATION
  Previous expectation.
• 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.