Definition of glance

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