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▪ I. glancing, vbl. n.|ˈglɑːnsɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. glance v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. glance, in various senses.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxv. 252 This Kynge Wyllyam..by glaunsynge of an arowe..was wounded to y⊇ deth. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxxiii. 617 Sir Wylliam Fermyntone excused hymselfe and sayde..howe he coulde nat amende it [his stroke], bycause of glaunsynge of his fote. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 110 By this upbraiding to me the Bordello's, as by other suspicious glancings in his Book, he would seem privily to point me out..as one whose custom of Life were not honest. 1701Beverley Apoc. Quest. 42 All which speak the Openings, and Glancings [printed Glaneings] out of the Kingdom of Christ. 1832H. Martineau Ireland v. 82 She saw a glancing and gleaming on the extreme point of the track..It was the glittering of the arms of a strong party of soldiers. 1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 257 The glancing of their weapons, and the shrill cry of the trumpet, all filled the spectators with astonishment.
b. Comb., as glancing-glass Sc., ‘a glass used by children for reflecting the rays of the sun on any object’ (Jam.). In quots. fig.
1728Walker Life Peden (ed. 3) 95 A glazing Glancing-glass, who loves to hear himself speak, and the World to notice him. 1818[see glaik n.4].
▪ II. ˈglancing, ppl. a.
[f. glance v.1 + -ing2.]
That glances (in various senses of the verb).
1596Spenser F.Q. v. vi. 38 The glauncing sparkles through her bever glared, And from her eies did flash out fiery light. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Antiq. xvii. xiv. (1733) 477 He insinuated, by this glancing Way, some remote Pretension that he might have to the Crown. 1725Pope Odyss. xix. 464 This [scar] on Parnassus combating the boar, With glancing rage the tusky savage tore. 1814Southey Roderick xvii. 49 The stream—with its shadows and its glancing lights. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. vi. xlviii, She had a glancing forethought of what she would do in that case.
†b. a glancing view, a cursory look or survey.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xii, This glancing View of these two great Inventions. 1707Norris Treat. Humility iii. 102 To take a short glancing view of the imperfections of our nature.
c. Comb., as † glancing-wise.
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. H iiij, Syr Thomas Darcy vpon hys approch to the enemies, was strooken glauncing wyse on the ryght syde, with a bullet. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 18 He had never opened it to them but in dark speeches, and glaunsing wise, and so much as sufficed to put them in some hope.
Hence ˈglancingly adv., in a glancing fashion.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xxxv. 47 Tharbiters glaunsingly, Ere the flies ought saide..Had betweene them selues these woords. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. (1807–8) III. 125 Others glansinglie passe by it, as a matter of no great observation. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxix. (1713) 253 These six..I distinctly remember, but had cursorily and glancingly cast mine Eye on all twelve. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 502 My feet shall bear me glancingly along to the merry music of streams. 1855Tait's Mag. XXII. 119 There are plenty of witty men..whose faculties play glancingly upon the surface of things. |