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To overlook, or miss in searching
“He should have the confidence not to mislook any information.”
To mislay or lose temporarily
“Under this delusion, they mislook the means of bettering the condition of the poor.”
To look unfavorably on
“She does not profess to mislook upon you as a father.”
(rare) To sin by looking
“Actaeon had the bad luck to mislook upon Lady Luck. As might anyone risk to do, gazing too long, too helplessly, at Wonder.”
(rare) An act of sinful looking
“Ovid tells a tale of the evils of mislook, how Acteon, when hunting, came upon Diana and her nymphs bathing, and because he did not turn away his eyes, he was changed into a hart and torn to pieces by his own hounds.”
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