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.
2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart
aside. ''Your arrow hath glanced''. --Shak.
On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground.
--Milton.
3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a
momentary or hasty view.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth
glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
--Shak.
4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to
hint; -- often with at.
Wherein obscurely C[ae]sar"s ambition shall be
glanced at. --Shak.
He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift.
5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be
visible only for an instant at a time; to move
interruptedly; to twinkle.
And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His
vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing
feet. --Macaulay.