1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Glance \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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". --Shak. [1913 Webster] On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. [1913 Webster] The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. [1913 Webster] Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak. [1913 Webster] He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. [1913 Webster] And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
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