glancen.[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.()v. i.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
Csar"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.)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.()In company I often glanced it. (Shak.)