Glance

/ɡlɑːns/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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?

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

He, however, blenched not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros.

A horseman rode up as he spoke, and gave a letter. Claverhouse glanced it over, laughed scornfully, bade him tell his master to send his prisoners to Edinburgh, for there was no answer; […]

The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware, which was most strictly and critically clean, glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment.

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, […]

[S]hould we croſs them, tho they ſhould ſee Shoals of Fiſh, or Turtle, or the like, they will purpoſely ſtrike their Harpoons and Turtle-irons aſide, or ſo glance them as to kill nothing.

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

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

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