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glances

[glans, glahns]

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verb (used without object)

to look quickly or briefly.

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

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.

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

verb (used with object) Archaic.

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

to cast or reflect, as a gleam.

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

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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noun

a quick or brief look.

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

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

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noun

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

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

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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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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer—committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."

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