Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Oblique in direction; slanting or deflected.
- adjective Not straightforward; indirect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shooting, as light.
- adjective Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction.
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- verb Present participle of
glance . - adjective Making a
superficial ,obtuse contact with something.
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Examples
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But in glancing at each of these (and more) it was easy for me to see whether the phrase “right wing boogeyman” referred to a right winger who was acting as a boogeyman, or someone who was acting as a boogeyman to the right wing.
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I see I have been lax in glancing through the ranks.
*stretch* alienne 2002
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One of the first things we notice in glancing at the portrait is the peculiar angle at which the
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It was a cold day, but the sun was bright and, glancing from the snow that lay deep outside, it filled the plain room with light.
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He reached out and rapped on the door, and as the page outside opened it, "Show this person out," he said, without again glancing toward Abel.
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Thick and fast they fell, rattling on the deck, glancing from the men's armour, wounding not a few.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917
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"It's a gloomy old business, isn't it?" he observed, glancing from the high canopied bed with its hangings of faded damask to an engraving of the Marriage of Pocahontas between the dormer-windows.
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"I am very ill-natured," I said, glancing from the kindly blue eyes of the elderly man to the laughing blue eyes of the younger man; "but I could not help it.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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It's as close to the equator as I've ever managed to get, and I recall glancing outside the window at the satellite dish on the house exterior and noting it pointed almost straight up, whereas in Scotland I'm sure they're angled somewhat unsurprisingly once you think about it towards the horizon.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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I shall take the liberty to suggest to Captain Garningham to have a quantity of mosquito netting on board, to provide against these pests, "replied the Floridian, glancing from the Englishman to me.
Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida Oliver Optic 1859
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