Crossword clues for glancing
glancing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glance \Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Wherein obscurely C[ae]sar"s ambition shall be glanced at.
--Shak.He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.
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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.
Glancing \Glan"cing\, a.
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Shooting, as light.
When through the gancing lightnings fly.
--Rowe. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.
Wiktionary
Making superficial, obtuse contact with something. n. A sideways look; a glance. v
(present participle of glance English)
Usage examples of "glancing".
Heinrich Frank Adler walked out of the maintenance shack door, glancing back and forth as if to verify that Pak was alone.
Jin whispered to Akim, glancing around to make sure there was no one else in the room.
But glancing over a French paper while he breakfasted at the Westminster, he saw that a slight accident had happened to the boat during a storm on her return voyage from Algiers, and that she would be delayed three days for repairs.
And Furvain, glancing for just a moment into his wine-bowl as though some poem might be lurking there, would draw a deep breath and instantaneously begin to recite a mock epic, in neatly balanced hexameter and the most elaborate of anapestic rhythms, about the desperate craving of a Pontifex for sausage made of steetmoy meat, and the sending of the laziest and most cowardly of the royal courtiers on a hunting expedition to the snowbound lair of that ferocious white-furred creature of northern Zimroel.
Dramatis Personae in the New Atlantan parts of London, but that was the adjective they always used anyway, delivered in a near-whisper, with brows raised nearly into the hairline and eyes glancing significantly over the shoulder.
General Aur made an expansive gesture with one hand, then resumed his satisfied contemplation of the stars, only occasionally glancing over his shoulder at the other men in the office.
Lewrie took hold of the preventer backstay that was already twanging with the weight of the men who had pre- ceded him and began to descend, after glancing over to sting Rolston with a smug look.
Glancing up at the bathymeter I saw that we had already reached the depth of a mile.
Chief Four Bears in center stage until he could not see how to adjust it another half an inch, the artist came back to his pretty wife and stood beside her, nibbling inside his lip, glancing over the display for anything else that might need a final touching or tilting or dusting.
He inched forward warily, fighting his own reluctant muscles, glancing to see if other bees were in the vicinity.
Glancing around, Agent Brakeman reached under the body of the machine, inserting his forefinger in a concealed whorl lock.
Having finished introductions, Cardiff began glancing at place-cards where chairs were still vacant.
As she chatted, indicating various points of interest in the town, Lyons kept glancing sideways at Bic.
But the Chukchi woman returned just then and took the crate, glancing at him as she did so.
He spoke quietly, staring ahead of him, and Claribel glancing at him, thought how grim his profile looked.