glance over

present singular third person glances over · participle present glancing over · participle past glanced over · past glanced over

1. transitiveto quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes

   "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.

   1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36

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   When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.

   1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see glance, over.

   He glanced over (at her).