Dictionary-Definition.com :: Glancing definition

Definition of 'Glancing'

From: GCIDE

Glancing \Glan"cing\, a.
1. Shooting, as light. [1913 Webster]
When through the gancing lightnings fly. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". --Shak. [1913 Webster]
On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. [1913 Webster]
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. [1913 Webster]
Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. [1913 Webster]
And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]