GLANCE (2)

glance (2). Glance, v. to view obliquely, shoot, strike, allude

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Glance, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing (?).] 1. 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. 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. 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. 4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; — often with at.
Wherein obscurely Cæsar's ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift. 5. 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.