Glance (?), n. [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.) 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, chalcocite. -- 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\'b6s 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.
