scancing

Verb

scance (third-person singular simple present scances, present participle scancing, simple past and past participle scanced)

1. (Scotland) To give a cursory examination.
   • And ye must also allow these Circumstances to be scanced upon, as my scant Information and shallow Capacity will admit of; This only ye are to expect, and this according to the measure of Light and Assistance, which GOD shall be pleased to give me, I shall presume and endeavour to shew you.1718, G. C. (a Lover of Peace and Truth), Scotland's Present Circumstances
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To reflect on; to consider.
   • I marvell our records nothing at all
     Do mention Wallace going into France;
     How that can be forgote I greatlie scance;1638, Henry Adamson, The Muses Threnodie
3. (Scotland) To shine.
   • Glad cam the dawn in rosy robe,
     Whilk day our Saviour rase,
     An' flang her scancing dewy veil
     Out ower the hills and braes.1818, The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
4. To take cover in a scance.
   • Zutphen is victualled, and the States' men lie over the river, entrenched and "scanced" to hinder the enemy's coming further into the Velewe.1916, Joseph Stevenson, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth

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