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"Glance" in German?

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"Glance" in German : Blick

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Pronunciation : Glance
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
Definition : 1. A sudden flash of light or splendor. Swift as the lightning glance. Milton.

2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.

3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper.

4. (Min.)

Defn: A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. -- Glance copper, c -- Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Glance
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. 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.

2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". Shak. On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. Milton.

3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.

4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - - often with at. Wherein obscurely C?sar''s ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift.

5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Glance
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.

2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.] In company I often glanced it. Shak.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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