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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



... but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion; and ...
— The Rivals - A Comedy • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... very ill he saw that at a glance. She rose from her sofa, and extending her hand, thanked him, with glistening eyes, for ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... One glance at the leader and Rob knew at once that he had found an enemy. 'Twas the man who had usurped his father's place as Head Forester, and who had roughly turned his mother out in the snow. But never a word said he for good or bad, and would have passed on his way, had not this man, clearing his ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... "I would have the love of my child. I let her depart, when not the wealth of Phoebus himself could recompense me for her loss. I bartered her for gifts, and Ixion withholds the wealth which he sware to give. Yet were all the riches of his treasure-house lying now before me, one loving glance from the eyes of Dia would be more than ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... old forger's broken words of gratitude in his brusquely kind fashion, but his heart imaged always the light in the girl's soft eyes as she bent a parting glance upon him, like a benediction, ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander


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