·noun A sudden flash of light or splendor.
II. Glance ·vt To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
III. Glance ·noun An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
IV. Glance ·noun A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
V. Glance ·vi To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
VI. Glance ·vt To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
VII. Glance ·vi To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
VIII. Glance ·vi To shoot or emit a flash of light; to Shine; to Flash.
IX. Glance ·vi To make an incidental or passing reflection; to Allude; to Hint;
— often with at.
X. Glance ·noun A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
XI. Glance ·vi To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to Twinkle.