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glanced

[glans, glahns] Origin

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, especially so as to bounce off at an angle (often followed by off): The arrow glanced off his shield.
4.
to allude briefly to a topic or subject in passing (usually followed 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.

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Glanced is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
noun
8.
a quick or brief look.
9.
a gleam or flash of light, especially 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 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


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

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Word Origin & History

glance
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).
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