glance

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 ]