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.
Any of these, at least at first glance, could preclude Mexico as a possible site.
Here is a glance at West Germany's proposed treaty for full political unification with East Germany, which would follow the July 1 merger of the two nations' economies.
Donovan's life work is art usually seen at a great distance in a fleeting glance from a car window.
You glance from time to time at the distant reaches of the river.
An on-screen image can, at a quick glance, draw the eye to an unusual spike of red or dash of blue, revealing patterns that numbers need thousands of rows to show.
The grey-on-pink columns look, at a glance, just as they always do - or, at least, as they have done since the typography was changed a year or so ago.
A glance at last Sunday's papers reveals the hatred many feel towards his methods.
At first glance it looks as though it might be more difficult for the French to attract foreign investment in the new round of privatisations. First, the financial prospects for French companies are more precarious than they were in the buoyant mid-1980s.
Here, at a glance, are the facts and figures about the 28th space shuttle mission: Spaceship: Discovery, eighth flight.
Here, at a glance, are the methods for picking delegates from New Hampshire to attend the 1988 Democratic and Republican national conventions this summer.
It seemed this was the only way to get something done." Here, at a glance, are highlights of actions taken Wednesday by the Supreme Court.
But his trademarked Bedfellows, at first glance a collection of oddly twisted metal tubes, doesn't look like a bedframe.
With an exaggerated shrug of his shoulders and a glance around a room that was filled to capacity, he said: "Oh, probably nothing.
'At one glance', he said, you can see the entire range of habitats in Europe, from the Arctic through to the Mediterranean'. Over the next week we left no stone unturned as we pried into the secrets of the natural history of the area.
A report takes only a few minutes to prepare and is accessible by non-computer personnel. Timely information is crucial to most businesses, but it needs to be in a digestible form. The use of graphs makes the sales figures comprehensible at a glance.
IBM also included a pen in press kits that on first glance appeared to be an expensive Mont Blanc pen, but that on closer inspection turned out to be a clone made in Taiwan.
More than one receptionist has blown smoke in his face, he explains, while others engrossed in best sellers have thrown him a withering glance and barked, "Whaddyawan?"
Jeff Krag, a Chevron spokesman at the refinery, said the company had not finished reviewing the proposed Labor Department fines but "on initial glance" saw flaws in OSHA's analysis of the accident. He said the company would appeal the penalties.
Here at a glance are the official results from the parliamentary voting on Sunday.
But a glance at the daily headlines suggests that a millenium of conflict has merely been refined by modern times.
They deserved, he insisted, much more than a momentary glance.
The temperature and the humidity may both be in the nineties but the Japanese driver will have air conditioning to take care of that. Every so often, he will glance at a display which tells him if he is still heading in the right direction.
AT FIRST glance, it seems quite like old times.
At first glance, those sound like mild recommendations, but they carry a considerable amount of philosophical and political freight.
A backward glance at last summer's lists also shows that the best recommendations don't necessarily come from the biggest and best-known brokerage houses.
At first glance, it appears that McKesson has simply automated a costly, labor-intensive chore.
Just last week, Soviet TV viewers got a glance of Michael Jackson's Pepsi performance, a glimpse of a Visa card and a sales pitch for the quality of Sony TVs.
Even people who, at first glance, appear to come out ahead with NOW accounts can see interest earnings wiped out when taxes are figured in.
Here at a glance are the specificatons of both, according to Jane's Defence Weekly: TYPE: Short range, road mobile, liquid propellant, single warhead ballistic missile.
Ms Susan Sternglass, banking analyst at Goldman Sachs, is braced for a further fall in net profits this year to FFr1.1bn. At first glance, this does not look like an attractive privatisation prospect.