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Luke, n. Also: luk; luik(e, luyk, lwik; loik; louk, look; leuke. [ME. (c 1200) lok(e, look, f. Luke v.]

1. The action of looking; a look, a glance.At a luke, in the space of a luke, at a glance, in the twinkling of an eye.(1) a1500 Henr. Fab. 104 (Ch.).
Houngrie men may not leif on lukis [H. luikis, B. loikis]
Id. Orph. 280 (Ch. & M.).
His wyf … Bot for a luke [B. luk] sa sone was hynt hym fro
a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 1080.
Sal neuer freik on fold … Gar me lurk for ane luke
c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 136. Id. xx. 35.
Be nocht in countenance ane skornar, nor by luke
c1515 Asl. MS. I. 168/8.
Men that has precious stanis in thair eyne that will sla men with thair luke
1513 Doug. viii. ix. 118.
Govand apon thar bryght armour … So fer as that thar luke mycht thame attane
Ib. xii. i. 8.
As euery wight To that effect addressyt thar luke and sycht
1535 Stewart 13404. 1599 Rollock Wks. I. 301.
My luke is not set upon thir visibill thingis
(b) 15.. Clar. v. 2041.
His knightheid scho enforcit with hir luike
1596–7 Misc. Spald. C. I. 115.
[A disease which] he haid gotin be the dink and luike of ane euill ee
(c) 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI. 168.
[That his majesty] will accompt ane louk to be gewin at this tyme as a cryme of mutillatioun, and ane straik … as a cryme of treasoun
(2) a1400 Leg. S. xvii. 46.
The quhilk, quhat thinge it ourtuke A[s] fyr gregois brynt at a luke
c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 232.
Sudaynly, in the space of a luke, All was hyne went

b. With epithets or descriptive contexts. Passing into sense 2. Also fig.sing. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2622.
The uolf … With girnand teith and awfull angrie [B. angry austre] luk, Said to the lamb [etc.]
c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 231.
Gret ene and ronde … And staitlie luke and lordlie and litill gleyd
c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 115.
Crabbit Saturn … His luke was lyke for to perturb the aire
Ib. 123. Id. Tua Mar. W. 267.
Be of ȝour luke like innocentis
Ib. 420.
I drup with a ded luke
Ib. 188, 229. Id. xxi. 43, xlii. 37, xlviii. 93, etc. 1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 120.
With a luke onlufsum he lent me sic wordis
1535 Stewart 12956.
With lyoun luke
15.. Clar. v. 1323.
With ane stedfast leuke debonarlie Scho all beheld the mirrie companie
1560 Rolland Seven S. 5969. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 13.
In presence of the Regent … scho cast ane pietious luik
1573 Sempill Sat. P. xxxix. 150.
Auld Capetan Leirmount with ane luik to bang thame
c1590 J. Stewart 68/116. Ib. 226. § 105.
Vith luik obscuir and phisuomie detort
c1590 Fowler I. 108/105.
When that a quik and gallant lwik did mak me crawe to … behoulde the trowpe
plur. 1513 Doug. xiii. v. 66.
Quhar is now … thyne eyn twan With thar sweit blenkand lukis
1535 Stewart 12952. 15.. Clar. ii. 1864.
With secreit blenkis … With smylling loukis full of cherising
1570 Sempill Sat. P. xii. 127.
Haue lyounis lukis and than mak me ane lear
1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 30.
Johnne Hamiltoun … quhome with mery lukis and gentill contenance … scho enterit in the game of the glaiks
fig. 1651 Dickson Matthew 3.
The mason-like looks of his conscience, levelling its eye to each action [etc.]

c. (To take, have, get, etc.) a (close, cursory, etc.) look (= sight, inspection, examination) of anything. d. To have a look, to have an eye, to intend (to do something).c. 1622-6 Bisset II. 320/17.
And sua it is that at the first luik or sicht of these nottis of the samyn, ȝe may get suir knawlege thairof
1669 Jus Populi 194.
The surveyer who useth to take but half a look of matters
1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 7.
For it is ay heartsom to have ay a broad look of our own case
Ib. 10.
It is but an overly look that ye have gotten of it, ye have never been at the heart of the … case
a1700 Charters Spiritual Disc. 10.
If you will take a narrow look of them
1685-8 Renwick Serm. 272.
Take a look of what sin hath done to us this day
d. 1683 Wodrow Hist. III. 457.
I could not argument for the truth as others, but I neuir had a look to go back, nor one wrong thought of God

2. Personal appearance or aspect, ‘looks’. Also plur. in same sense. c1460 Thewis Wysmen 79.
Thar luk, thar ferys and thare pais
c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 152.
Ane thowsand kiddis … Thy lymmerfull luke wald fle thame
Ib. 175.
Thy ghaistly luke fleys folkis that pas thé by
plur. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 169.
The larbar lukis of thy lang lene craig

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