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

(lb) To try to find, to look for, to search.

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(label) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

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*Bible, (w) xi. 16

*:Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.

*1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :

*:“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.

(lb) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

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*1880 , , :

*:But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.

*1886 , Constantine Popoff, translation of (Leo Tolstoy)'s :

*:I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

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*:Ryght so he sought towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes

(lb) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

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*:Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

*1726 (tr.), (Alexander Pope), ''(Homer)'s (Odyssey), Book II, line 33

*:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains