How fleet is a glance of the mind.
Cowper.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your
arrow hath glanced". Shak.
On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground.
Milton.
3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary
or hasty view.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven
to earth, from earth to heaven.
Shak.
4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; --
often with at.
Wherein obscurely CÊsar\'b6s ambition shall be glanced at.
Shak.
He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.
Swift.
5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible
only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye
pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.
Macaulay.
Glance (?), v. t. 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast
for a moment; as, to glance the eye.