"scance" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more scance [comparative], most scance [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} scance (comparative more scance, superlative most scance)
  1. Reproachful
    Sense id: en-scance-en-adj-eAgLX1zI

Noun

Forms: scances [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} scance (plural scances)
  1. A crescent-shaped structure of stones built to afford cover in battle.
    Sense id: en-scance-en-noun-WwCjAEFo
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) A gleam or glow. Tags: Scotland, obsolete Categories (topical): Light
    Sense id: en-scance-en-noun-eySDNL1f Disambiguation of Light: 0 6 33 16 11 4 13 6 11 Categories (other): Scottish English
  3. (medicine, obsolete) A dose of radiation. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-scance-en-noun-XKhymJb2 Topics: medicine, sciences
  4. (obsolete) A social discussion. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-scance-en-noun-jMGleYlv

Verb

Forms: scances [present, singular, third-person], scancing [participle, present], scanced [participle, past], scanced [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} scance (third-person singular simple present scances, present participle scancing, simple past and past participle scanced)
  1. (Scotland) To give a cursory examination. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-scance-en-verb-UA1KI12h Categories (other): Scottish English
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) To reflect on; to consider. Tags: Scotland, obsolete Categories (topical): Thinking
    Sense id: en-scance-en-verb-~rlJJAGV Disambiguation of Thinking: 1 5 4 3 10 4 65 4 4 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 7 14 4 2 14 23 17 18
  3. (Scotland) To shine. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-scance-en-verb-uM152skT Categories (other): Scottish English
  4. To take cover in a scance.
    Sense id: en-scance-en-verb-me7BEqzk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 12 3 4 11 19 14 26

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1638, Henry Adamson, The Muses Threnodie",
          "roman": "How that can be forgote I greatlie scance;",
          "text": "I marvell our records nothing at all\nDo mention Wallace going into France;",
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          "ref": "1869, William Lindsay, Auld Yule, and other poems, page 33",
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          "text": "Glad cam the dawn in rosy robe,\nWhilk day our Saviour rase,\nAn' flang her scancing dewy veil",
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          "ref": "1966, Allen B. Hovey, The Hidden Thoreau, page 137",
          "text": "Sounds a-sounding, colors bright,\nSadness lacking, brilliant light;\nFuture scancing, Forward sight,\nSinging day, painted night.",
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          "ref": "2010, Christopher Maclachlan, Before Burns, page 214",
          "roman": "The scancing glories o' carmine?",
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          "ref": "2013 September 4, Stewart Fisher, “He was more than a Championship player. It was time.”, in The Herald Scotland",
          "text": "Plenty other football managers have been damned by early snap judgments on players but there were scance looks all around from the Hamilton contingent when they were informed by Archie Knox that their 15-year-old first team player wasn't being considered for Scotland's under-17s, allegedly on the proviso that he wasn't able to get around the park.",
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          "text": "The latest acquisition of the club, annoyed by the scance glances which he began to receive and Vernon Ivey giving him looks of pure poison, called out above the hubbub: \"Gentlemen. Please.",
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          "text": "Ordinarily a temperature from 200 to 350 degrees is sufficient, with scances from thirty to sixty minutes, followed, when there is stasis or a weak circulation, by the “Morton wave current.”",
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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1718, G. C. (a Lover of Peace and Truth), Scotland's Present Circumstances",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson",
          "text": "His agents a', wi' sullen gloom\nMute, measure, as he dances\nWith horrid rage, damning the loom\nAnd weavers; soon he scances\nTheir claith this day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944 September 23, “Reviews: DuMont”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 39, page 19",
          "text": "Final blow to the reviewer's smarting eyes and ears were the parting shots in which (1) a whole group was scanced with its back to the audience while doing what must have been intended to be a satire on a community sing, and (2) Peter Donald did a closing announcement in which the choral group completely drowned out his words.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, page 91",
          "text": "He scanced towart the beerial shaft an crossed hissel. “Sorry,” he sayed immediately. “My grannie was a closet Christian.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give a cursory examination."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cursory",
          "cursory"
        ],
        [
          "examination",
          "examination"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) To give a cursory examination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1638, Henry Adamson, The Muses Threnodie",
          "roman": "How that can be forgote I greatlie scance;",
          "text": "I marvell our records nothing at all\nDo mention Wallace going into France;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, William Lindsay, Auld Yule, and other poems, page 33",
          "text": "But, as I said, she scanced the time o' nicht,\nGaed for a dip, and held it to the licht.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reflect on; to consider."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, obsolete) To reflect on; to consider."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1818, The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany",
          "roman": "Out ower the hills and braes.",
          "text": "Glad cam the dawn in rosy robe,\nWhilk day our Saviour rase,\nAn' flang her scancing dewy veil",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Allen B. Hovey, The Hidden Thoreau, page 137",
          "text": "Sounds a-sounding, colors bright,\nSadness lacking, brilliant light;\nFuture scancing, Forward sight,\nSinging day, painted night.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Christopher Maclachlan, Before Burns, page 214",
          "roman": "The scancing glories o' carmine?",
          "text": "The cheeks observe, where now could shine",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To shine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shine",
          "shine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) To shine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916, Joseph Stevenson, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth",
          "text": "Zutphen is victualled, and the States' men lie over the river, entrenched and \"scanced\" to hinder the enemy's coming further into the Velewe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take cover in a scance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take cover",
          "take cover"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scance"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Light",
    "en:Thinking"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more scance",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most scance",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scance (comparative more scance, superlative most scance)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1805, Samuel-Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria",
          "text": "The wild confusion, which the shout of mobs, The din of company, the jest, the sneer, Envy's scance look, and Hatred's savage frown Upraise",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 September 4, Stewart Fisher, “He was more than a Championship player. It was time.”, in The Herald Scotland",
          "text": "Plenty other football managers have been damned by early snap judgments on players but there were scance looks all around from the Hamilton contingent when they were informed by Archie Knox that their 15-year-old first team player wasn't being considered for Scotland's under-17s, allegedly on the proviso that he wasn't able to get around the park.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Harry Swiers, Tall Storeys",
          "text": "The latest acquisition of the club, annoyed by the scance glances which he began to receive and Vernon Ivey giving him looks of pure poison, called out above the hubbub: \"Gentlemen. Please.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Reproachful"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Reproachful",
          "reproachful"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scance"
}

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