Glance — Defs

01 n. A sudden flash of light or splendor.

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.
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.(Min.)

Phrases & compounds

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.

02 v. i. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.

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”.
“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 Caesar'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.

03 v. t. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

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.