glance
['glɑ:ns]
n. 瞥, , 掠, 辉矿

vi. 视, , 掠, , 略

vt. 视, 射, 使掠

1. The glasses glanced and twinkled in the firelight.
   杯炉火照耀亮。
2. He gave her an admiring glance.
   她投敬慕瞥。
3. She glanced round the room before she left.
   她略微环视房。

glance
[ noun ]

1. a quick look

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

1. throw a glance at; take a brief look at

<verb.perception> glint peek
She only glanced at the paper
I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting

2. hit at an angle

<verb.motion>

Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. {Gleen},
{Glint}, {Glitter}, and {Glance} a mineral.]
1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.

Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.

2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.

3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.

4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.

{Glance coal}, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.

{Glance cobalt}, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.

{Glance copper}, chalcocite.

{Glance wood}, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.


Glance \Glance\, v. i. [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.


Glance \Glance\, v. t.
1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a
moment; as, to glance the eye.

2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]

In company I often glanced it. --Shak.