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Webster 1913 Edition
Glance
Glance
,Noun.
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. Shakespeare
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.
Glance
,Verb.
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
Like light in many a shivered lance,
That breaks about the dappled pools.
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
Doth
glance
from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shakespeare
4.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; – often with at.
Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be
Caesar's ambition shall be
glanced
at. Shakespeare
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
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small
glancing
feet. Macaulay.
Glance
,Verb.
T.
1.
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment;
as, to
. glance
the eye2.
To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
[Obs.]
In company I often
glanced
it. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Glance
GL`ANCE
,Noun.
1.
A sudden shoot of light or splendor.2.
A shoot or darting of sight; a rapid or momentary view or cast; a snatch of sight; as a sudden glance; a glance of the eye.GL`ANCE
,Verb.
I.
When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly.
1.
To fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. The arrow struck the shield and glanced. So we say, a glancing ball or shot.2.
To look with a sudden rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. Then sit again, and sigh and glance.
3.
To hint; to cast a word or reflection; as to glance at a different subject.4.
To censure by oblique hints.GL`ANCE
,Verb.
T.