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GLANCE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  glans

Matching Terms:  glance over, Glancing, Glancingly

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a quick look
  2. [v]  rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several lampposts"
  3. [v]  throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "glint" is archaic; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
 
 Synonyms: carom, coup d'oeil, glimpse, glint, peek
 
 See Also: bounce, bound, eye-beaming, look, look, looking, looking at, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, side-glance, side-look, spring, take a hop

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. {Gleen},
{Glint}, {Glitter}, and {Glance} a mineral.]
1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
         Swift as the lightning glance.        --Milton.
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. --Shak.
3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
         How fleet is a glance of the mind.    --Cowper.
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. --McElrath.

  2. \Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glanced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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.
                                               --Tennyson.
2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart
   aside. ''Your arrow hath glanced''. --Shak.
         On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground.
                                               --Milton.
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.
                                               --Shak.
4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to
   hint; -- often with at.
         Wherein obscurely C[ae]sar"s ambition shall be
         glanced at.                           --Shak.
         He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift.
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.                                 --Macaulay.

  3. \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.        --Shak.
 
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