Glance
Glance , noun
[Akin to Dutch glans luster, brightness, German glanz, Swedish glans, Dutch glands brightness, glimpse. Compare Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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.
(Mineralogy) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
Collocations (4)
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
Glance , intransitive verb
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”. — Shakespeare
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.
Glance , transitive verb
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. [Obsolete]
In company I often glanced it.