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glancing
(encz) | glancing,lesknoucí adj: Zdeněk Brož |
glancing
(encz) | glancing,odrážení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Glancing
(gcide) | Glance \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.
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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.
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2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart
aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". --Shak.
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On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. --Milton.
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3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a
momentary or hasty view.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven. --Shak.
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4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to
hint; -- often with at.
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Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak.
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He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift.
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5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be
visible only for an instant at a time; to move
interruptedly; to twinkle.
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And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small
glancing feet. --Macaulay.
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Glancing
(gcide) | Glancing \Glan"cing\, a.
1. Shooting, as light.
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When through the gancing lightnings fly. --Rowe.
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2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a
glancing shot.
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glancing
(encz) | glancing,lesknoucí adj: Zdeněk Brožglancing,odrážení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Glancingly
(gcide) | Glancingly \Glan"cing*ly\, adv.
In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
--Hakewill.
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