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Glance   /glæns/   Listen
noun
Glance  n.  
1.
A sudden flash of light or splendor. "Swift as the lightning glance."
2.
A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. "Dart not scornful glances from those eyes."
3.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion. "How fleet is a glance of the mind."
4.
(Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc.


verb
Glance  v. t.  
1.
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
2.
To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. (Obs.) "In company I often glanced it."


Glance  v. i.  (past & past part. glanced; pres. part. glancing)  
1.
To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. "From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools."
2.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". "On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground."
3.
To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. "The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven."
4.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at. "Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at." "He glanced at a certain reverend doctor."
5.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. "And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet."





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"Glance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Evelyn he had loved no other. Why did he love her? How was it he could not put her out of his mind? Why couldn't he accept an Arab girl—Beclere's girl? She was younger and more beautiful. If she did not belong to Beclere— Owen looked up and watched them, and seeing Beclere glance in the direction of the shepherd, he added, "Or to ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
... statements of the cases from these letters, many of which are perfect pen-pictures of disease. As bank-tellers and cashiers, who daily handle large quantities of currency, can infallibly detect spurious money by a glance at the engraving or a touch of the paper, so the experienced physician, by his great familiarity with disease, becomes equally skilled in detecting the nature and extent of a chronic malady from a written ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... them to their never-ending toil, and turned his keen eyes away, looking elsewhither towards the horse-breeders of Thrace, the Mysians, fighters at close quarters, the noble Hippemolgi, who live on milk, and the Abians, justest of mankind. He no longer turned so much as a glance towards Troy, for he did not think that any of the immortals would go and help either Trojans ...
— The Iliad • Homer
... nameless, being too rich a mynheer to be lightly mentioned, who, in the battle of Whiteplains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a musket-ball with a small sword, insomuch that he absolutely felt it whiz round the blade and glance off at the hilt: in proof of which he was ready at any time to show the sword, with the hilt a little bent. There were several more that had been equally great in the field, not one of whom but was persuaded ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving
... afternoon, determined to tell Satterlee that I should leave him, and go back to my people in America, when I saw a small crowd ahead, and heard them cheer before they broke up and walked away. I should have passed by without a second glance, had I not been struck by the appearance of one of the three men who remained on the spot,—a strong-limbed fellow of thirty, evidently of purest Saxon blood. His whole face was handsome, but his hair was simply superb, and this it was that attracted ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various


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