Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To glance over; run over with the eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To glance over.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb poetic, transitive To
glance over.
Etymologies
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over- + glance
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Examples
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Whence she might overglance the boundless boiling of billows,
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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I will overglance the superscript: 'To the snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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I will overglance the superscript: ‘To the snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady
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