Glance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.

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