glance

verb (used without object), glanced, glanc·ing.

1. to look quickly or briefly.
2. to gleam or flash: a silver brooch glancing in the sunlight.
3. to strike a surface or object obliquely, especially so as to bounce off at an angle (often followed by off): The arrow glanced off his shield.
4. to allude briefly to a topic or subject in passing (usually followed by at).

verb (used with object), glanced, glanc·ing. Archaic.

5. to cast a glance or brief look at; catch a glimpse of.
6. to cast or reflect, as a gleam.
7. to throw, hit, kick, shoot, etc. (something) so that it glances off a surface or object.

noun

8. a quick or brief look.
9. a gleam or flash of light, especially reflected light.
10. a deflected movement or course; an oblique rebound.
11. a passing reference or allusion; insinuation.
12. Digital Technology. information on an electronic screen that can be understood quickly or at a glance: Get news and weather glances on your phone. Tap anywhere on a glance to open the app.
13. Cricket. a stroke in which the batsman deflects the ball with the bat, as to leg.

noun

1. any of various minerals having a luster that indicates a metallic nature.

verb

1. (intr) to look hastily or briefly
2. (intr; foll by over, through, etc) to look over brieflyto glance through a report
3. (intr) to reflect, glint, or gleamthe sun glanced on the water
4. (intr usually foll by off) to depart (from an object struck) at an oblique anglethe arrow glanced off the tree
5. (tr) to strike at an oblique anglethe arrow glanced the tree

noun

6. a hasty or brief look; peep
7. at a glance from one’s first look; immediately
8. a flash or glint of light; gleam
9. the act or an instance of an object glancing or glancing off another
10. a brief allusion or reference
11. cricket a stroke in which the ball is deflected off the bat to the leg side; glide

noun

1. any mineral having a metallic lustre, esp a simple sulphidecopper glance

v.

mid-15c., of weapons, from glacen “to graze, strike a glancing blow” (c.1300), from Old French glacier “to slip, make slippery,” from glace “ice” (see glacial). Sense of “look quickly” (first recorded 1580s) probably was influenced in form and meaning by Middle English glenten “look askance” (see glint). Related: Glanced; glancing.

n.

c.1500, “sudden movement producing a flash,” from glance (v.). Meaning “brief or hurried look” is from 1590s.

see at first blush (glance).