Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

* 1813 (14^thc.), (Dante Alighieri), The Vision of Hell as translated by The Rev. H. F. Cary.

*:He, from his face removing the gross air, / Oft his left hand forth stretch'd, and seem'd alone / By that annoyance wearied.

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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..

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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin

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(lb) To befit; to beseem.

:(Spenser)

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.