glancing

Verb

glance (third-person singular simple present glances, present participle glancing, simple past and past participle glanced)

1. (transitive) To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.
   • Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aſide, / What needſt thou wound with cunning when thy might / Is more then my ore-preſt defence can bide?1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 139”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature I, verso
2. (transitive) To look briefly at (something).
   • A horseman rode up as he spoke, and gave a letter. Claverhouse glanced it over, laughed scornfully, bade him tell his master to send his prisoners to Edinburgh, for there was no answer; […]1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume IV (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
3. (transitive) To cause (light) to gleam or sparkle.
   • The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware, which was most strictly and critically clean, glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment.1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter IV. The Same to the Same [Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford].”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and...
4. (also, figuratively, transitive) To cause (something) to move obliquely.
   • One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion was ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the way, […]a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “Observations on Some Specialties of Divine Providence in the Life of Jos. Hall, Bishop of Norwich”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable...
   1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To hit (a ball) lightly, causing it to move in another direction.
      • Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when [Kevin] Doyle sent [Stephen] Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season.2011 January 18, “Wolverhampton 5 – 0 Doncaster”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2023
   2. (also, figuratively, transitive) To hit (a ball) with a bat held in a slanted manner; also, to play such a stroke against (the bowler).

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