1. glance - Noun
2. glance - Verb
A sudden flash of light or splendor.
A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOn film you put all your energies into a single glance. Alan Rickman
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. James Thurber
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair. Joseph Conrad
The winter does not leave without a backward glance. Finnish Proverb
For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future. Arabic Proverb
Prying with sidelong glance into other people's business. Latin Proverb