Glancing

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

  Glancing \Glan"cing\, a.
     1. Shooting, as light.
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              When through the gancing lightnings fly. --Rowe.
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     2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a
        glancing shot.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "glancing":
     brushing, contacting, contingent, flanking, grazing, impingent,
     impinging, in contact, lateral, lee, leeward, meeting, next-beside,
     nudging, osculatory, rubbing, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward,
     sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, tangent,
     tangential, touching, weather, windward