Definitions for the word "glance" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v.
(-cing) 1 (often foll. By down, up, over, etc.) Look briefly, direct one''s eye. 2 strike at an angle and glide off an object (glancing blow; ball glanced off his bat). 3 (usu. Foll. By over) refer briefly or indirectly to a subject or subjects. 4 (of light etc.) Flash or dart. n. 1 brief look. 2 flash or gleam. 3 glancing stroke in cricket. at a glance immediately upon looking. [origin uncertain]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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