Definition of glance

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Glance (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance..

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Anthracite :: Anthracite (n.) A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal..
Admonitory :: Admonitory (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance..
Nickel :: Nickel (n.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6..
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B..
Stibonium :: Stibnite (n.) A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony..
Gliff :: Gliff (n.) A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.
Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..
Perstringe :: Perstringe (v. t.) To touch; to graze; to glance on.
Glint :: Glint (v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye..
Glance :: Glance (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
Glance :: Glance (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
Admiring :: Admiring (a.) Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance..
Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle..
Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..
Smickering :: Smickering (n.) Amorous glance or inclination.
Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Eyeglance :: Eyeglance (n.) A glance of eye.
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance..
Glance :: Glance (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye..
Glance :: Glance (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance..
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