Glance

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1. Noun

A sudden flash of light or splendor.

2. Noun

A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.

3. Noun

An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

4. Noun

A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.

5. Verb

To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.

6. Verb

To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".

7. Verb

To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.

8. Verb

To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.

9. Verb

To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.

10. Verb

To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

11. Verb

To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
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