glancen.1
/ɡlɑːns/, /ɡlans/, U.S. /ɡlæns/ 1.
a. A swift oblique movement or impact. †by glance: obliquely. Also figurative ? Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > oblique
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skite?a1786
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 A Glance, transitus.
?1579 Woorthie Enterprise I. Foxe in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 153 For they saile away, being not once touched with the glaunce of a shot, and are quickly out of the Turkish canons reach.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 55 And though these speeches did not take their aime directly at his Majesty, yet did they by glance and obliquely deeply wound him.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 332 The watchful angry Beast Th' Advantage spies; and at one sidelong Glance Rips up his Groin.
b. Cricket. (See quot. 1897.)
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1883 Cricket 19 Apr. 39/1 Leg glances being his favourite stroke.
1892 Daily News 1 July 2/2 A remarkable ability to play the stroke, which can be best described as the leg glance.
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iv. 190 There is another stroke by which good-length balls on the leg-side can be played—the glide or glance... The face of the bat is turned slantwise to meet the ball, which should glance off towards fine-long-leg... In these days, with perfect wickets, the glance-stroke is very useful.
a. A satirical hit or allusion, a jest at (or upon) something.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [noun] > instance of
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satirization1868
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crack1896
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > satire > [noun] > instance of
gesta1387
gamegall1577
glance1602
satire1606
skit1727
satirization1868
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 36 This was but the glaunce of Diogenes, who made more accompt of his scoffe then his state.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I4v Sylenus was grauelled..not knowing where to carp at him, saue at the last, he gaue a glaunce at his patience towards his wife. View more context for this quotation
1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) lxxxvi. §842 Pleasant jests, conceits, and witty glances [L. allusiones] beseem men of civility, but not bitter tart girds.
1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xiii. 342 In these Songs they now and then gave a Satyrical Glance upon those who had misbehav'd themselves in the Wars.
b. Allusion, reference. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > relation to something or reference > indirect reference or allusion
reflex1630
glance1665
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 349 Albeit in that brief discourse I made..there are some glances at it; I shall here..speak a little further upon that subject.
1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. Introd. 3 Every Part of it [the temple-ministration] had a Glance at a future and better state of Things.
3. A sudden movement producing a flash or gleam of light; also, the flash or gleam itself.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker
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glist1864
styme1888
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > producing flash of light
glance?a1513
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 165 Reid of his cullour as is the ruby glance.
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Aivv Yea thrise..In glaunces bright she glittered from the ground [L. terque ipsa solo..Emicuit].
1637 W. Alexander Jonathan in Recreat. Muses ii. 321 Each swords bright glance, seem'd summons from their fate.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 387 The Sun..shines with utmost ardour upon those parts..whether his glances be oblique or perpendicular.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 405 Fish..sporting with quick glance Show to the Sun thir wav'd coats. View more context for this quotation
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 132 The famous Ice-glance... It is a large high field of ice, whose glance in the air may be seen for many leagues at sea.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 43 The silver light, with quivering glance, Played on the water's still expanse.
1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady i. 21 As knight led captive, in romance, Through postern and dark passage, past grim glance Of arms.
4. A brief or hurried look. Also a glance at, into, of, over, upon, etc. (the object looked at).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > hasty
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look-in1653
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run-over1814
once-over1913
up and down1923
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 3 The Verser cuts off some foure cards, and..giueth the Connie a glaunce of the bottom card.
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 7 The glaunce of this Dames angrie eyes.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. ii. 115 I was wonne my Lord With the first glance . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1034 So said he, and forbore not glance or toy Of amorous intent. View more context for this quotation
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 383 In most Courts..the Glance of the Monarch is watch'd and every Smile waited for with impatience.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 532 This arrangement pleases at first glance, but soon fatigues the eye by it's uniformity.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 275 He passed the papers through his hands, turning some over with a hasty glance.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 113 Casting a glance over the glorious scene beneath us [etc.].
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §7. 154 A glance satisfied him of the hopelessness of the struggle.
Compounds
glance-pitch n. (see quot. 1897).
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1897 Birm. Weekly Post 18 Sept. 5/1 Barbadoes is commencing to export ‘manjak or glance-pitch’, of the nature of petroleum in a bituminous form.
glance-wood n. a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging-instruments, carpenter's rules, etc.
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1871 McElrath Dict. Commerce in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Glance-wood.
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glancen.2
/ɡlɑːns/, /ɡlans/, U.S. /ɡlæns/ A variety of ore having a lustre which indicates its metallic nature. Obsolete except in antimony glance n., bismuth-glance n., copper-glance n., iron glance n., lead glance n., silver-glance n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > lustrous
glance1828
1457–8 Mem. in E. Plowden Comentaries (1571) 320 cxliiij Bolles de Glaunce ore domini Regis valoris xv li. vj s′. viij d′.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Oj Lead Ore we distinguish into three kinds which we Miners observe, the first is Potters Ore, which is the same with that we call Glance Ore; the second is Steel Ore; and the last is that called White Ore.]
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 488 Order XI.—Glance. Lustre metallic. Gray black.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
1858 W. Whewell Hist. Sci. Ideas II. 141 The Orders Pyrites, Glance, and Blende, are common to Naumann and Mohs.
Compounds
glance-coal n. a variety of anthracite (German glanzkohle, Dutch glanskool).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]
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pit-coal1483
cannel1541
earth coala1552
horse coal1552
Newcastle coal1552
stone-coal1585
cannel coal1587
parrot1594
burn-coal1597
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
Welsh coala1618
land-coala1661
foot coal1665
peacock coal1686
rough coal1686
white coal1686
heathen-coalc1697
coal-stone1708
round1708
stone-coal1708
bench-coal1712
slipper coal1712
black coal1713
culm1742
rock coal1750
board coal1761
Bovey coal1761
house coal1784
mineral coal1785
splint1789
splint coal1789
jet coal1794
anthracite1797
wood-coal1799
blind-coal1802
black diamond1803
silk-coal1803
glance-coal1805
lignite1808
Welsh stone-coal1808
soft1811
spout coals1821
spouter1821
Wallsend1821
brown coal1833
paper coal1833
steam-coal1850
peat-coal1851
cherry-coal1853
household1854
sinter coal1854
oil coal1856
raker1857
Kilkenny coal1861
Pottery coal1867
silkstone1867
block coal1871
admiralty1877
rattlejack1877
bunker1883
fusain1883
smitham1883
bunker coal1885
triping1886
trolley coal1890
kibble1891
sea-borne1892
jet1893
steam1897
sack coal1898
Welsh1898
navigation coal1900
Coalite1906
clarain1919
durain1919
vitrain1919
single1921
kolm1930
hards1956
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > anthracite
culm1742
rock coal1750
anthracite1797
blind-coal1802
glance-coal1805
Kilkenny coal1861
1805 Edinb. Rev. 6 230 With respect to glance-coal..it is surely far from being new under its vulgar name of blind-coal.
1848 J. G. Wilkinson Dalmatia & Montenegro I. 198 It is a variety of glanz coal.
c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 117/1 Glance-coal, or anthracite, is not rich enough in hydrogen to be of any use to the gas manufacturer.
glance cobalt n. = cobaltite n. (German glanzkobold).
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1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 71 Glance cobalt.
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glancev.1
/ɡlɑːns/, /ɡlans/, U.S. /ɡlæns/ 1. figurative and in extended use.a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 63 As the Iest did glaunce awaie from me, 'Tis ten to one it maim'd you too out right.1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 239 Their projects,..doe often glance or fall upon some other Object, then they thought of.1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xx. 323 He..means that rebuke to glance off on him who has put forth on this day his power to help and to save.† b. To pass by without touching.
a. intransitive. Of a weapon: To glide off an object struck, without delivering the full effect of the blow. Also to glance aside, off. to glance on: to strike obliquely upon and turn aside.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > move obliquely > glide off obliquely
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twinec1400
glancea1500
slant?1521
glenta1533
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > glance off
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a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiii. 198 The stroke of the ax glenched, and smote the horse bakke a-sonder.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvi. 250 The helmet was hard and þe swerd glenced asyde & dommaged hym nought.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 30 Most of their volees of arrowes should have..glaunced or lighted upon the piques.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 309 And from Ctesippus' arm the spear elanc'd On good Eumæus' shield and shoulder glanc'd.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 61 The blow only glanced on the bone, and scarce drew blood.
1882 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. IV. 245 The heaviest shot glanced harmlessly from the sides of the assailing vessels.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > move past > without touching
glance?c1550
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 246 The river Nadder..glawnceth bie the village Wersminster.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 49 Some have digged deep, yet glanced by the Royal Vein.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly
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1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ix. 23 The manere how they shall glaunche or with-drawe themself from ye strokes.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xix. 67 He glanched asyde, and so the kyngis nevew, for he recountred ayenst nothing, fell doun to the grounde.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxvi. sig. E4v Why with the time do I not glance aside To new found methods..? View more context for this quotation
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. (1636) iv. ii. 264 The warre..glanced into Asia, and lay heavy upon Africke.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. ii. xxiv If that, the object gone, away those forms do glance.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 36 Glancing from the precipice with the rapidity of lightning, [he] was lost in the gulph below.
3. With reference to discourse: To pass quickly over, glide from, off (a subject). to glance at (upon, †against): to allude or refer to obliquely or in passing, usually by way of censure or satire; to hit at, reflect upon.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > move off (a topic)
glance1570
society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint at or suggest [verb (transitive)]
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to glance at (upon, against)1570
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adumbrate1589
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innuate?1611
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involve1646
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subindicate1654
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suggest1697
indicate1751
surmise1820
to get at ——1875
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ciiij Yet will I glanse ouer it, with wordes very few.
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B3v Thus Gentlemen I haue glaunst at the Barnards Law.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 306 To call him villaine; and then to glance from him, To th' Duke himselfe, to taxe him with Iniustice? View more context for this quotation
1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard To Rdr. sig. A iv The wise Old Man..seemes to glance at our English Proverb: No foole to the old foole.
1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 40 Whatsoever may have glanced upon him, was directed only to our Author.
1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 7. 64 Verses..wherein he glanced at a certain Reverend Doctor.
1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 47 119 The discourse mostly glanced upon the corruption of Manners and Morals among the Romans.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table vi. 174 I glanced off, as one often does in talk.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona iv. 39 Words which glance upon the purity of justice.
4. To cause a flash of light by rapid movement; †Scottish to shine. Of light: To dart, flash, gleam.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker
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1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 76 To..mak it [cloth] weill hewit And gar it glanss lyk Dunmygrane.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 19 The Sunne beames glancing on my face, as I lay in bed.
1673 J. Milton Psalm LXXXVII in Poems (new ed.) 162 In thee [sc. Sion] fresh brooks, and soft streams glance.
1727 P. Walker Life A. Peden (1827) 49 He broke out in a Rapture about our Martyrs, saying..now they are all Glancing in Glory.
17.. A. Ramsay Ode Mem. Mrs. Forbes 13 Her soul glanc'd with each heavenly ray.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 242 Now flashing wide, now glancing as in play, Swift beyond thought the lightnings dart away.
1821 W. Scott Pirate II. x. 248 These pretty feet and ancles, that glance so white in the moon-beam.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiv. 211 An insane light glanced in her heavy black eyes.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 10 He.., glancing like a dragon-fly In summer suit and silks of holiday.
5. Of the eye: To move quickly, to cast a momentary look, to flash. Also said of the person looking; esp. to glance at, to give a brief look at; to glance over, to look quickly over, to read hurriedly (also to glance through); and with various prepositions and adverbs, as to glance down, up, etc.
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society > communication > reading > [verb] > to browse rapidly or omit passages
overrunOE
skip1526
to glance over1582
to look inside ——1591
to look into ——1624
to glance through1865
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > glance or look quickly
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to glance one's eye, look1590
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 37 In this wise musing myn eye glaunst to my coompanye fensiue.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 246 They that glaunce at honor [Fr. qui iettent legerement les yeux à l'honneur], as if that were vertue it selfe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 13 The Poets eye..doth glance From heauen to earth. View more context for this quotation
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 293 The eyes..loosly swimming in pleasure, glancing and (to speake so) venereall.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 110 A horseman..gave a letter. Claverhouse glanced it over.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 53 A bright beautiful face glanced out at the window, and vanished.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 396 Some of those who glance over these pages, may have been the ‘sons and daughters of affliction’.
1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xvi. 252 Her eye glanced on something which made her change colour.
1843 W. H. Ainsworth Windsor Castle i. iii The duke..was glancing rather wistfully at them.
1862 G. MacDonald David Elginbrod ii. xviii Every now and then glancing up at her from her work.
1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's (1866) xxx. 181 Mrs Sherman and the party..glanced off their cards and chatted.
1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's (1866) xxx. 187 She glanced up at the clock.
1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's (1866) xxxiii. 208 He would..open her books, and glance through them for some trace of her in them.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 80 We crept..cautiously along..glancing down the mighty cliffs beneath us.
1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner I. v. 96 He did not glance round as the manager entered.
1881 C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner III. vi. 139 ‘No,’ she agreed, glancing nervously around her.
1881 J. Fothergill Kith & Kin I. ii. 22 She..glanced for a moment into his face.
1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 147 Glancing very keenly across at me.
1902 R. Machray Night Side of London v. 93 You indulge in pleasant little dreams, or glance away from what may become a tragedy.
1907 Smart Set Jan. 54 Her brother-in-law glanced after her.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) ii. i. 57 As she talks, she glances everywhere except at any of their faces.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) ii. ii. 70 He glances away, ignoring her question.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 132 He glances up at the chandelier disapprovingly.
a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) iv. 152 She glances around vaguely.
6. transitive.
a. to glance one's eye, look: †(a) to turn aside one's gaze as when dazzled (cf. sense 2); (b) to give a quick or momentary look; also, to look quickly at or upon an object.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look sideways
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to look asidec1230
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to look awryc1400
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to glance one's eye, look1590
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > glance or look quickly
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to glance one's eye, look1590
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1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 41 Finding the sunne too glorious for my sight, I glaunst my looke.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxix. sig. Iv Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aside. View more context for this quotation
1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse i. vii, in Wks. (1873) III. 16 Now glaunce your eye on this side, on the yoke, You bring your neck to.
1642 Iack Puffe 4 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 315 His downcast eyes upon his boots are glanct.
1716 J. Addison tr. Ovid Met. in Wks. (1753) I. 194 Fire broke in flashes when he glance'd his eyes.
a1794 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) I. 177 After glancing my eye over Addison's agreeable dialogues, I more seriously read the great work of Ezekiel Spanheim.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. xiv. 195 Vivian glanced a look, which would have been annihilation to any one, not a freeholder of five hundred acres.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. i. 21 He..glancing his severe eye around the group..at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros.
b. To survey with a glance; to catch a glimpse of.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > succeed in seeing or catch sight of
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1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 50 in Poems Still does he glance the fortune of that day.
1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 176 With enrapturing joy, shall we glance the countless facts of redeeming love.
1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VII. x. 392 Lady Gauntlet just glanced the hind wheels of two carriages, which drove round to the back part of the house.
1828 Montgomery Vision Heaven 28 Who ever glanced the Heavens, nor dream'd of God..and things divine?
1828 Montgomery Vision Heaven 39 Those burning mysteries that mortals glance With wonder.
c. To express or convey with a glance (of the eye).
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1717 M. Prior Alma ii. 185 There his eyes took distant aim, and glanc'd respect to that bright dame.
1843 E. Jones Stud. Sensation & Event 109 Glancing sublime devotion.
1846 R. Browning Luria v, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII 18/2 As if there were no glowing eye i' the world, To glance straight inspiration to my brain.
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society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > hint at or suggest [verb (transitive)]
inkle1340
induce1481
alludec1487
signifya1535
insinuate1561
to glance at (upon, against)1570
thrust1574
imply1581
adumbrate1589
intimate1590
innuate?1611
glancea1616
ministera1616
perstringea1620
shadow1621
subinduce1640
involve1646
equivocate1648
hint1648
subindicate1654
hint at1697
suggest1697
indicate1751
surmise1820
to get at ——1875
the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with > barely touch
glancea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 67 Alone, it was the subiect of my Theame: In company I often glanced it. View more context for this quotation
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 44 I observ'd that the Mall gos the whole Square thereof next the Wall, & bends with an angle so made as to gla<n>ce the wall.
8.
a. To direct obliquely. literal and figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] > cause to move obliquely
glancea1656
squint1789
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 22 One morning as I lay in my bed, a strong motion was suddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 32 Seeing they [words or hints] are cunningly glanced, so also are they to be cautiously received.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. 10 They will purposely strike their Harpoons..aside, or so glance them as to kill nothing.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub x. 191 I will here take Leave to glance a few Innuendo's.
a1800 W. Cowper Wks. (1835–7) I. 120 Formerly, in my happiest hours, I had never been able to glance a single thought that way.
1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) I. 404 He came home..to refute some malicious imputations that had been glanced at his character.
1825 T. Carlyle Life Schiller (1845) iii. 165 He narrowly escapes killing or ducking for having ventured to glance a censure at the General.
b. To emit with a flash or gleam. to glance back: to flash back, reflect.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (transitive)] > emit (light, etc.) with a flash
flash1593
effulge1729
glance1748
strobe1977
1748 J. Hervey Medit. & Contempl. (ed. 4) II. 7 The curling Waves, glowing with Purple in one place..in another, glancing a Cast of undulating Green.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. iv. 70 The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware..glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily.
c. Cricket. To deflect (the ball) with the glance-stroke (see glance n.1 1b). Also absol., and with the bowler as object.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of stroke
chop1776
mow1844
crump1850
poke1851
cut1857
swipe1857
glance1898
glide1899
cart1903
nibble1926
on-drive1930
slash1955
cover-drive1960
push1963
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke
take1578
stop1744
nip1752
block1772
drive1773
cut1816
draw1816
tip1816
poke1836
spoon1836
mow1844
to put up1845
smother1845
sky1849
crump1850
to pick up1851
pull1851
skyrocket1851
swipe1851
to put down1860
to get away1868
smite1868
snick1871
lift1874
crack1882
smack1882
off-drive1888
snip1890
leg1892
push1893
hook1896
flick1897
on-drive1897
chop1898
glance1898
straight drive1898
cart1903
edge1904
tonk1910
sweep1920
mishook1934
middle1954
square-drive1954
tickle1963
square-cut1976
slash1977
splice1982
paddle1986
1898 K. S. Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team (ed. 4) iii. 50 He seemed able to ‘drive’,..or ‘glance’..with equal skill and success.
1899 Captain 1 593/1 You had better practise slipping and glancing the ball.
1899 Daily News 22 July 4/2 Men were then less apt to ‘glance and glide’, like The Brook, and K. S. Ranjitsinhji.
1928 Daily Express 19 Dec. 3/2 White..glancing Ironmonger for three.
1963 A. Ross Australia 63 vii. 129 Simpson glanced Statham's fourth ball and Smith, diving, caught it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
glancev.2
U.S.
transitive. To planish.
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1894 Times 16 Aug. 6/3 Sheet steel, polished, planished, or glanced,..one and three-fourths cents per pound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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