Part 4822

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Witchcraft; magic; a spell.</def>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.</def>

<blockquote>The air filled with a strange, pale <b>glamour</b> that seemed to lie over the broad valley. <i>W. Black.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Glamour gift</col>, <col>Glamour might</col></mcol>, <cd>the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>It had much of <b>glamour might</b> To make a lady seem a knight. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glamourie</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glam"ou*rie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Glamour.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Glance</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Akin to D. <ets>glans</ets> luster, brightness, G. <ets>glanz</ets>, Sw. <ets>glans</ets>, D. <ets>glands</ets> brightness, glimpse. Cf. <er>Gleen</er>, <er>Glint</er>, <er>Glitter</er>, and <er>Glance</er> a mineral.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A sudden flash of light or splendor.</def>

<blockquote>Swift as the lightning <b>glance</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.</def>

<blockquote>Dart not scornful <b>glances</b> from those eyes. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An incidental or passing thought or allusion.</def>

<blockquote>How fleet is a <b>glance</b> of the mind. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called <i>copper glance</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Glance coal</col>, <cd>anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon.</cd> -- <col>Glance cobalt</col>, <cd>cobaltite, or gray cobalt.</cd> -- <col>Glance copper</col>, <cd>c<?/alcocite.</cd> -- <col>Glance wood</col>, <cd>a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. <i>McElrath<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Glance</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glance</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Glanced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Glancing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.</def>

<blockquote>From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences <b>glance</b>, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath <i>glanced</i>".</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>On me the curse aslope <b>Glanced</b> on the ground. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.</def>

<blockquote>The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth <b>glance</b> from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>