Verb

(glanc)

To look briefly (at something).

She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.

* Shakespeare

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

To graze a surface.

To sparkle.

The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.

* Tennyson

From art, from nature, from the schools, / Let random influences glance , / Like light in many a shivered lance, / That breaks about the dappled pools.

To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.

* Macaulay

And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, / His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.

To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.

* Shakespeare

Your arrow hath glanced .

* Milton

On me the curse aslope / Glanced on the ground.

(soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.

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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at .

* Shakespeare

Wherein obscurely / Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.

* Jonathan Swift

He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.

Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.