a gleam or flash of light, especially reflected light.
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a deflected movement or course; an oblique rebound.
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a passing reference or allusion; insinuation.
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Cricket. a stroke in which the batsman deflects the ball with the bat, as to leg.
Origin: 1400–50; late Middle English glancen (v.), nasalized variant (perhaps influenced by obsolete glent;see glint) of Middle English glacen to strike a glancing blow < Old French glacier to slip, slide < Latin glaciāre to freeze. See glacé
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).