Meanings
verboverglance (third-person singular simple present overglances, present participle overglancing, simple past and past participle overglanced)
present singular third person overglances · participle present overglancing · participle past overglanced · past overglanced
- poetictransitiveTo glance over.
with a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]
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