Meaning of glance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brief or cursory look.
   also, countable, figuratively, uncountable
2. To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly
3. Ellipsis of glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
4. A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.
   also, countable, figuratively, uncountable
5. To look briefly at (something)
6. Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
   countable, uncountable
7. A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.
   countable, uncountable
8. To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle
9. Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: an act of rapidly touching the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.
   countable, uncountable
10. To cause (something) to move obliquely. To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction. To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler)
11. An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction
13. An incidental or passing allusion or thought, often unfavourable, expressed on a topic.
    countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To wound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.”

“Hard to ſeeme wonne: but I was wonne my Lord / With the firſt glance; […]”

“[H]is ſupercilious glances grew humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]”

“[H]ere paſſion firſt I felt, / Commotion ſtrange, in all enjoyments elſe / Superiour and unmov'd, here onely weake / Againſt the charm of Beauties powerful glance.”

“How fleet is a glance of a mind! / Compar’d with the ſpeed of its flight, / The tempeſt itſelf lags behind, / And the ſwift winged arrows of light.”

“He passed the papers through his hands, turning some over with a hasty glance, and dwelling on others as if their contents had been of the last importance.”

“As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communicated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building.”

“Warwick left the undertaker’s shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer’s office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.”

“But Richmond, his grandfather’s darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance, appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.”

“Strangers in the night exchanging glances / Wondering in the night, what were the chances?”

“The ayre here is freſh and ſweet in the morning and towards Sunſet, but in the Sunnes perpendicular glances, wee found it hot and raging: […]”

“[E]ach Creek & Bay / With Frie innumerable ſwarme, and Shoales / Of Fiſh that with thir Finns and ſhining Scales / Glide under the green Wave, […] ſporting with quick glance / Show to the Sun thir wav’d coats dropt with Gold, […]”

“With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d / Loſe their defence diſtracted and amaz’d.”

“Is it the lightning’s quivering glance / That on the thicket streams, / Or do they flash on spear and lance / The sun’s retiring beams?”

“[…] I likena cummers that can come and gae like a glance of the sun, or the whip of a whirlwind.”

“[W]hen Marcus Philoſophus came in, Sylenus was grauelled, and out of countenance, not knowing where to carpe at him, ſaue at the laſt, he gaue a glaunce at his patience towards his wife.”

“[A]lbeit in that brief diſcourſe I made concerning the Red ſea and Carmania where I made mention of the Burial-place of Erythreus there are ſome glances at it; I ſhall nevertheleſs (as in the moſt proper place) ſpeak a little further upon that ſubject.”

“copper glance    silver glance”

“The Oxides, Pyrites, Glances, and Blendes, might be so termed; thus we should have Tungstic Iron Oxide (usually called Tungstate of Iron), Arsenical Iron Pyrites (Mispickel), Tetrahedral Copper Glance (Fahlerz), Quicksilver Blende (Cinnabar), and the Metals might be termed native, as Native Copper, Native Silver.”

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