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Answer for the clue "Furtive look ", 6 letters:
glance

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., of weapons, from glacen "to graze, strike a glancing blow" (c.1300), from Old French glacier "to slip, make slippery," from glace "ice" (see glacial ). Sense of "look quickly" (first recorded 1580s) probably was influenced in form and meaning ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A brief or cursory look. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To look briefly (''at'' something). 2 (context intransitive English) To graze a surface. 3 To sparkle. 4 To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quick look [syn: glimpse , coup d'oeil ]

Usage examples of glance.

Slina cut off, flicking a glance at Jord and Abel behind them, and Rimon became aware of the utter horror Jord was righting down, the weary but sick feeling in Abel as they listened to the calm discussion between two Gendealers.

Kedar glanced at Adena, his brows arching almost up into his scalp line.

He cast a suspicious glance at me as I walked slowly toward Adena, but he said nothing and remained where he was, checking his power packs.

Heinrich Frank Adler walked out of the maintenance shack door, glancing back and forth as if to verify that Pak was alone.

Niffa glanced around and saw the townsfolk staring at Admi with terrified concentration.

The guard got up unhurriedly out of his chair, stretched with his arms over his head, put on his hat, and with one more glance in the direction of the stagethe play seemed, after all, not such a big attractionwalked leisurely out of the auditorium.

I nodded, glanced significantly at Mac, because they knew better than to have machine gun practice when Mac was holding services in the afterpart of the ship.

Zoran glanced down as Agro came to the head table, stepping up to speak quietly to the King.

He stepped inside and glanced down the aisleway, verifying that Phil Knight was already aboard.

I noticed that she kept darting little glances at Senora Seixas, who was nearly as big as her husband, with a great trembling bosom and thick white arms ajangle with bracelets, but who moved with the grace of a former dancer and carried her plain blue frock magnificently.

Clarette turned to drive the children away and in the act allowed Patsy and Ajo to glance past her into the hut.

I spared but a single glance backward toward the place Nefar had been before I once again felt something crumbling with the breeze beneath my feet and I ran, I leapt, I threw myself with Akan toward the cliff we had abandoned.

Jin whispered to Akim, glancing around to make sure there was no one else in the room.

He glanced at his wife, and the electricity that passed between them put Alani on her feet.

But with the scimitar of Hassan of Aleppo stretched over me, with the dangers of the night before me, I was in no mood for a veiled duel of words, for an interchange of glances in thrust and parry, however delightful such warfare might have been with so pretty an adversary.