GLANCE

glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil

(noun) a quick look

glance

(verb) hit at an angle

glance, peek, glint

(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at; “She only glanced at the paper”; “I only peeked--I didn’t see anything interesting”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

glance (third-person singular simple present glances, present participle glancing, simple past and past participle glanced)

(intransitive) To look briefly (at something).

(intransitive) To graze a surface.

To sparkle.

To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.

To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.

(soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.

To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.

(ichthyology) A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.

Synonyms

• (To look briefly): glimpse

Noun

glance (countable and uncountable, plural glances)

A brief or cursory look.

A deflection.

(cricket) A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.

A sudden flash of light or splendour.

An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

(mineralogy) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.

(mineral) Glance coal.

Source: Wiktionary

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Glance, n. Etym: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]

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. Shak.

3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper.

4. (Min.)

Definition: 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, c -- Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath.

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. 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.

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 glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.

4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - - often with at. Wherein obscurely Cæsar''s ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. 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 glancing feet. Macaulay.

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. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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