v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elanced p. pr. & vb. n. Elancing ] [ F. élancer, OF. eslancier; pref. es- (L. ex) + F. lancer to dart, throw, fr. lance. ] To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glanced p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing ] 1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. ”Your arrow hath glanced”. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In company I often glanced it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sudden flash of light or splendor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift as the lightning glance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. --
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. --
Glance copper, chalcocite. --
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]