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 ]

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 ]

a. 1. Shooting, as light. [ 1913 Webster ]

When through the gancing lightnings fly. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. glande, L. glans, glandis, acorn; akin to Gr. &unr_; for &unr_;, and &unr_; to cast, throw, the acorn being the dropped fruit. Cf. Parable, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth. (b) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as the pancreas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product. (b) Any very small prominence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. glandage. See Gland. ] A feeding on nuts or mast. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu&unr_;att. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gland. ] (Far.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings. [ 1913 Webster ]