glance

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To direct the gaze briefly: glance at the menu; glanced in the rearview mirror.
2. v. To move rapidly from one thing to another. Used of the eyes.
3. v. To shine briefly; glint. See Synonyms at flash.
4. v. To strike a surface at such an angle as to be deflected: A pebble glanced off the windshield. See Synonyms at brush¹.
5. v. To make a passing reference; touch briefly: a history course that only glanced at the Korean conflict.
6. v. To strike (a surface) at an angle; graze: The arrow glanced the target but didn't stick.
7. v. To cause to strike a surface at an angle: glanced a stone off the wall.
8. n. A brief or cursory look: gave the paper a glance before breakfast.
9. n. A quick flash of light; a gleam.
10. n. An oblique movement following impact; a deflection: The car struck the barrier and went off at a glance.
11. idiom. at first glance On initial consideration: At first glance the plan seemed unworkable.
12. n. Any of various minerals that have a brilliant luster: silver glance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A sudden shoot of light or splendor; a transient gleam.
2. n. A sudden look; a rapid or momentary view or directing of the eye; a sudden and brief turning of the attention toward something.
3. n. A brief incidental notice; a passing reference: as, a rapid glance at the remote cause of an event.
4. n. A sudden change of direction of the motion of a projectile or other moving body, due to contact with a deflecting surface; deflected motion.
5. n. In mining and mineralogy, the English equivalent of the German glanz, a term used by German miners to designate various ores possessing that peculiar luster and color which indicate that they are metalliferous combinations. Such are bleiglanz (galena, a sulphuret of lead), eisenglanz (hematite, specular iron ore, a sesquioxid of iron), and many others. A sharp line cannot be drawn between glanz and kies as used by German miners. The equivalent of the latter in English is pyrites: as, iron pyrites, copper pyrites, etc. This word is in common use among both scientific men and miners; but the word glance as the equivalent of glanz is less frequently heard, although by no means obsolete, since copper-glance, antimony-glance, and other similar names are met with occasionally.
6. To shoot or dart a ray or rays of light or splendor; emit flashes or coruscations of light; flash.
7. To appear and disappear rapidly, like a gleam of light; be visible for an instant.
8. To look with a sudden rapid directing of the vision; snatch a momentary or hasty view.
9. To make an incidental or passing reflection or allusion; hint; advert briefly.
10. To be deflected and move off in an oblique direction; move obliquely.
11. To cause to shoot or dart, as a ray of light; reflect, as a gleam.
12. To direct rapidly and for a moment, as the eye or the attention.
13. To suggest; hint.
14. n. In railroading, an incline or shoot made of timber, erected on a mountainside and designed to cause snow which slides down the mountain to glance or turn aside from the track.
15. n. In cricket, a stroke by which, instead of being hit, the ball is allowed to strike the bat and to be deflected from it, usually to the leg side; a glide.
16. In metal-working, to polish very highly; burnish; planish.
17. In cricket, to allow (the ball) to meet the bat and to be deflected from it, usually to the leg side.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To look briefly (at something).
2. v. intransitive To graze a surface.
3. v. To sparkle
4. v. soccer To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
5. n. A brief or cursory look.
6. n. A deflection.
7. n. cricket A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side
8. n. mineralogy glance coal

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
2. n. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
3. n. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
4. n. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
5. v. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
6. v. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. ”Your arrow hath glanced”.
7. v. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
8. v. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
9. v. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
10. v. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment.
11. v. obsolete To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a quick look
2. v. hit at an angle
3. v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at