2 archaic a flash or gleam of light:fish ... sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav’d coats
3 Cricket a stroke with the bat’s face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly.
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1take a brief or hurried look:Ginny glanced at her watch
(glance at/through) read quickly or cursorily:I glanced through your personnel file last night
2hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely:the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head
(of light) reflect off something with a brief flash:sunlight glanced off the curved body of a dolphin
[with object and adverbial of direction] (in ball games) deflect (the ball) slightly with a delicate contact:he glanced the ball into the corner of the net
[with object] Cricket deflect (the ball) with the bat held slantwise; play such a stroke against (the bowler):Simpson glanced Statham’s fourth ball
at a glance
immediately upon looking:she saw at a glance what had happened
at first glance
when seen or considered briefly and for the first time:good news, at first glance, for frequent travellers
glance one's eye
archaic look briefly:he had glanced his eye over all the folios of my copy
