Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GLANCINGS
Noun
glancings
plural of glancing
Anagrams
• clangings
Source: Wiktionary
GLANCING
Glan"cing, a.
1. Shooting, as light. When through the gancing lightnings fly. Rowe.
2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
GLANCE
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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