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glance

1 [glans, glahns]

verb, glanced, glanc⋅ing, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to look quickly or briefly.

2.	to gleam or flash: a silver brooch glancing in the sunlight.

3.	to strike a surface or object obliquely, esp. so as to bounce off at an angle (often fol. by off): The arrow glanced off his shield.

4.	to allude briefly to a topic or subject in passing (usually fol. by at).

–verb (used with object) Archaic.

5.	to cast a glance or brief look at; catch a glimpse of.

6.	to cast or reflect, as a gleam.

7.	to throw, hit, kick, shoot, etc. (something) so that it glances off a surface or object.

–noun

8.	a quick or brief look.

9.	a gleam or flash of light, esp. reflected light.

10.	a deflected movement or course; an oblique rebound.

11.	a passing reference or allusion; insinuation.

12.	Cricket. a stroke in which the batsman deflects the ball with the bat, as to leg.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME glancen (v.), nasalized var. (perh. influenced by obs. glent; see glint ) of ME glacen to strike a glancing blow < OF glacier to slip, slide < L glaciāre to freeze. See glacé

Synonyms:
2. glisten, scintillate. See flash. 3. reflect, ricochet. 9. glitter.

glance

2 [glans, glahns]

–noun

any of various minerals having a luster that indicates a metallic nature.

Origin:
1795–1805; < G Glanz brightness, luster

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glance¹ (glāns)

v. glanced, glanc·ing, glanc·es

v. intr.

1. To direct the gaze briefly: glance at the menu; glanced in the rearview mirror.
2. To move rapidly from one thing to another. Used of the eyes.
To shine briefly; glint. See Synonyms at flash.
To strike a surface at such an angle as to be deflected: A pebble glanced off the windshield. See Synonyms at brush¹.
To make a passing reference; touch briefly: a history course that only glanced at the Korean conflict.

v. tr.

To strike (a surface) at an angle; graze: The arrow glanced the target but didn't stick.
To cause to strike a surface at an angle: glanced a stone off the wall.

A brief or cursory look: gave the paper a glance before breakfast.
A quick flash of light; a gleam.
An oblique movement following impact; a deflection: The car struck the barrier and went off at a glance.

[Middle English glauncen, alteration (influenced by glenten, to shine) of glacen, from Old French glacer, to slide; see glacis.]

glance² (glāns)

n. Any of various minerals that have a brilliant luster: silver glance.

[German Glanz, from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German, bright; see ghel-² in Indo-European roots.]

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Glance

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

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 C[ae]sar"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.

Glance

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.

Language Translation for : glance

Spanish: echar un vistazo, dar una mirada,

German: einen flüchtigen Blick werfen auf,

Japanese: ちらりと見る

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glance (v.)

1441, from glacen "to graze, strike a glancing blow" (c.1300), from O.Fr. glaichier "to slip, make slippery," from glace "ice" (see glacial). Sense of "look quickly" (first recorded 1583) infl. by M.E. glenten "look askance" (see glint).

glance

see at first blush (glance).

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