Glance

Quick meaning: Glance is a verb meaning To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.

Meaning

To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.

More Meanings

1. To look briefly at (something).
2. To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.
3. To cause (something) to move obliquely.
4. To communicate (something) using the eyes.
5. To touch (something) lightly or obliquely; to graze.
6. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
7. To make an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourably, on (a topic); also, to make (an incidental or passing reflection, often unfavourable).

Example Sentences

[T]here his Eye took diſtant Aim, / And glanc'd Reſpect to that bright Dame, […]

Vivian glanced a look, which would have been annihilation to any one, not a freeholder of five hundred acres.

One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion was ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the way, […]

Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aſide, / What needſt thou wound with cunning when thy might / Is more then my ore-preſt defence can bide?

Word Forms

• glances
• glancing
• glanced
• glancest
• glancedst
• glanceth
• glaunce

Synonyms for glance

Depending on context, synonyms include gleg, glimpse, shufti, glint, carom, peek.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glimpse, glint, peek, carom, wink, gaze.

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