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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Glance \Glance\, verb (used without an object) [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 C[ae]sar"s 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Glancing \Glan"cing\, adjective
1. Shooting, as light.
When through the gancing lightnings fly. --Rowe.
2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "glancing": brushing, contacting, contingent, flanking, grazing, impingent, impinging, in contact, lateral, lee, leeward, meeting, next-beside, nudging, osculatory, rubbing, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, tangent, tangential, touching, weather, windward
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