In company I often glanced it.
Shak.
Glan"cing (?), a. 1. Shooting, as light.
When through the gancing lightnings fly.
Rowe.
2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing
shot.
Glan"cing*ly, adv. In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally;
indirectly. Hakewill.
Gland (?), n. [F. glande, L. glans, glandis, acorn; akin to Gr. &?; for
&?;, and &?; to cast, throw, the acorn being the dropped fruit. Cf.
Parable, n.]
1. (Anat.) (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or
eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the
salivary glands of the mouth. (b) An organ or part which resembles a
secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and
pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the
mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of
the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the
secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are
tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or
subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as
the pancreas.
2. (Bot.) (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular,
which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
(b) Any very small prominence.
3. (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the
packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of
Stuffing box, under Stuffing.