'Glance' definitions:

Definition of 'glance'

(from WordNet)
noun
A quick look [syn: glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil]
verb
Throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting" [syn: glance, peek, glint]
verb
Hit at an angle

Definition of 'Glance'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. A sudden flash of light or splendor. [1913 Webster]
  • Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. [1913 Webster]
  • Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. [1913 Webster]
  • How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Glance'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. [1913 Webster]
  • The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. [1913 Webster]
  • Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. [1913 Webster]
  • And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Glance'

From: GCIDE
  • Glance \Glance\, v. t.
  • 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • In company I often glanced it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'glance'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Glance'