单词 | by glance |
释义 | > as lemmasby glance a. A swift oblique movement or impact. †by glance: obliquely. Also figurative ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > [noun] > oblique glance1570 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. < as lemmas |
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