SURVEY, SURVEYING
NOUNS
1614 ► LUSTRATION a going round a place, viewing, or surveying it; the review of an army
1700 ► VIZZY a look, a sight, a glimpse, a scrutinizing gaze; scrutiny, survey → Sc.
1787 ► SCANCE a glance, a quick appraising look, a brief scrutiny, a cursory survey or review of persons or affairs → Sc.
1889 ► SKIM a hasty sketch or survey
1910 ► GANDER a survey → sl.
VERBS
1623 ► LUSTRATE to view, to survey → obs.
M19. ► TOMMY (TRIPE) to examine, to survey, to keep watch → rhyming sl. for ‘pipe’
1920 ► ONCE-OVER to glance at, to survey → sl.
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