| • | A sudden flash of light or splendor. |
| • | A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. |
| • | An incidental or passing thought or allusion. |
| • | A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. |
| • | To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. |
| • | To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". |
| • | To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. |
| • | To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. |
| • | To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. |
| • | To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. |
| • | To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. |