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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



... together on the threshold of their aunt's house. He had not time to answer, for the door was opened quickly, and Mrs. Bolton hurried forward to welcome him. She had been expecting him for some time, for Ann Holland had sent word that both he and Mrs. Chantrey were at her house. One glance at his anxious and sorrowful face revealed to her the anguish of the last few hours. Sophy crept away guiltily up stairs; and she put her arm through his, and led him into the dining-room, where a luxurious supper was ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton
... before how beautiful I am?" Helene seemed to say. "You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a woman who may belong to anyone—to you too," said her glance. And at that moment Pierre felt that Helene not only could, but must, be his wife, and that ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... he turned toward the gate of the camp, but after a few hasty steps paused, and a glance at the sky showed him that it was the second hour past midnight. Every surrounding object was buried in silence save that from the neighboring Dens of the royal steeds, came the sound of the rattle of a chain, or of the stamp ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... recruiting-office window, or speculated from the summit of that mirage-Pisgah which the imps of the bottle are so cunning to raise up. Already had my Alnaschar-fancy (even during that first half-believing glance) expended in various useful directions the funds to be obtained by pledging the manuscript of a proposed volume of discourses. Already did a clock ornament the tower of the Jaalam meeting-house, a gift appropriately, but modestly, commemorated in the parish ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... As her furtive glance rested upon his profile he rose to leave the deck. The Countess de Coude beckoned to a passing steward. "Who is that ...
— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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