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upglance

upglance noun: an upwards glance.

Noun

upglance (plural upglances)

  1. An upwards glance.
    • See him bend over the woman, and the upglance of her eyes as she speaks.1885, Mary Greenway McClelland, Oblivion: An Episode, page 136
    • "Well, we'll have a good start at all events," said Merle, with a merry little upglance.1917, Willis George Emerson, A Vendetta of the Hills, page 265

Verb

upglance (third-person singular simple present upglances, present participle upglancing, simple past and past participle upglanced)

  1. (obsolete) To glance upwards.
    • I stood beside her couch, with her thin fingers clasped round my hand ever so long, looking down at the earnest eyes upglancing from the pillow.1864, Jenny Wren, Facts and fancies, in prose and verse, page 195
    • Or the rapturous light that upglances From the eyes of a myriad Loves.1887, James Abraham Martling, Poems of Home and Country, page 300

Examples of upglance in a sentence

  • Nobody had as yet told Emily how very winsome that shy, sudden, upglance of hers was.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily of New Moon:
  • "Give it me!" she insisted; this with an impatient little stamp of the foot and an upglance of the compelling eyes that would have constrained me to do a far foolisher thing, had she asked it.2012, Francis Lynde, The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas, →ISBN:

Forms of upglance

Noun
pluralupglances
Verb
third-person singular presentupglances
present participleupglancing
past participleupglanced
pastupglanced

Origin of upglance

From up- + glance.

Questions about upglance

What does upglance mean?
Upglance means an upwards glance.
How do you use upglance in a sentence?
Nobody had as yet told Emily how very winsome that shy, sudden, upglance of hers was.
What part of speech is upglance?
Upglance can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of upglance?
The plural of upglance is upglances.

Words near upglance in the dictionary

  1. upgirt
  2. upgive
  3. upgiven
  4. upgives
  5. upgiving
  6. upglance
  7. upglanced
  8. upglances
  9. upglancing
  10. upglide
  11. upglides

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