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Glance (?), n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper.
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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.
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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.
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Glance, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing (?).]
1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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From art, from nature, from the schools,
Let random influences glance,
Like light in many a shivered lance,
That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.
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2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. ”Your arrow hath glanced”. Shak.
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On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. Milton.
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3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.
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4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
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Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. Shak.
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He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift.
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5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
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And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.
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Glance (?), v. t.
1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, “to glance the eye”.
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2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]
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In company I often glanced it. Shak.
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