GLANCE
\ɡlˈans], \ɡlˈans], \ɡ_l_ˈa_n_s]\
Definitions of GLANCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a quick look
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throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
By Princeton University
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a quick look
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throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "glint" is archaic; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
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An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
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To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
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To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
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To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. Your arrow hath glanced.
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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - often with at.
By Oddity Software
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A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
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An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
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To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
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To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
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To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. Your arrow hath glanced.
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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - often with at.
By Noah Webster.
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A sudden shoot of light; quick passing look of the eye; a quick momentary view.
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To shoot a sudden ray; view with a quick movement of the eye; to strike slantingly and fly off; as, the blow glanced off his shield.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A sudden shoot of light: a darting of the eye: a momentary view.
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To dart a ray of light or splendor: to snatch a momentary view: to fly off obliquely: to make a passing allusion.
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To dart suddenly or obliquely.
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GLANCINGLY.
By Daniel Lyons
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GLANCINGLY.
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To dart suddenly; direct momentarily.
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To look hurriedly or indirectly.
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To bound off after striking obliquely.
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To hint; make allusion.
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To flash; gleam.
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A quick look; sudden thought; momentary gleam; oblique rebound.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sudden flash of light; momentary view.
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To flash suddenly; give a hasty look; fly off obliquely; allude briefly.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A sudden shoot of light or splendour; a darting of the eye or sight; a quick momentary view; a passing allusion; a mineral with a metallic lustre, as glance-coal, a mineral composed chiefly of carbon.
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To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment.
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To dart a ray of light or splendour; to fly off obliquely; to look with a sudden rapid cast of the eye; to allude to in passing.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A rapid or momentary view; a sudden shoot of light or splendour; a name applied to minerals possessing a semi-metallic lustre.
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To dart aside; to shoot, as a ray of light or splendour; to fly off obliquely; to snatch a momentary view.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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