a. 斜的, 附带的, 随便的

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.


Glancing \Glan"cing\, a.
1. Shooting, as light.

When through the gancing lightnings fly. --Rowe.

2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a
glancing shot.