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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



... his face would show all the shifting emotions of ambition, passion, and determination; and his eyes, though not beautiful, had in them a piercing and commanding gleam that, with a glance, could influence and attract ...
— The Boy Life of Napoleon - Afterwards Emperor Of The French • Eugenie Foa
... scrutinized his hoard, fearing that in an unguarded moment a fortune might slip through his hands and be lost. Even the stranger passing along was hardly given a glance, so eager was each individual in searching ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... if waking from a long sleep, sat up and rubbed his face and eyes with both hands. Then bending forward, he looked up into the endless darkness, and lo! light appeared everywhere above him. He then looked down, and all below became a sea of light. A glance to the east created yellow streaks of dawn, another to the west the saffron tints of the dying day, both soon becoming obscured by numerous clouds of many hues, formed by his looking around ...
— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis
... Cobden in Eighteen Hundred Thirty-four. Bright was then twenty-three years old, while Cobden had reached the mature age of thirty. Bright regarded him as a patriarch, and called at his office in Manchester with thumping heart. Cobden looked at young Bright with his intuitive glance and concluded he wanted work. Cobden saw by his caller's clothes that he was a Quaker, and in an instant had ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard
... boils out of the two pages he lives in! (pp. 301, 302). That is realism if you like. A woman will see the point of Pyetushkov very quickly. Onisim and Vassilissa and the aunt walk and chatter around the stupid Pyetushkov, and glance at him significantly in a manner that reveals everything about these people's world. All the servants who appear in the tales in this volume are hit off so marvellously that one sees the lower-class world, which is such a mystery to certain refined ...
— A Desperate Character and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev


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