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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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