Part 4823

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with <i>at</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Wherein obscurely C\'91sar\'b6s ambition shall be <b>glanced</b> at. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He <b>glanced</b> at a certain reverend doctor. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.</def>

<blockquote>And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small <b>glancing</b> feet. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>Glance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; <as>as, to <ex>glance</ex> the eye</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>In company I often <b>glanced</b> it. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glancing</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glan"cing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Shooting, as light.</def>

<blockquote>When through the <b>gancing</b> lightnings fly. <i>Rowe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; <as>as, a <ex>glancing</ex> shot</as>.</def>

<h1>Glancingly</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glan"cing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.</def>

<i>Hakewill.</i>

<h1>Gland</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Gland</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>glande</ets>, L. <ets>glans</ets>, <ets>glandis</ets>, acorn; akin to Gr. <?/ for <?/, and <?/ to cast, throw, the acorn being the dropped fruit. Cf. <er>Parable</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; <as>as, the sebaceous <ex>glands</ex> of the skin; the salivary <ex>glands</ex> of the mouth.</as></def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary <i>glands</i>, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.</def>

<note>&hand; 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.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Any very small prominence.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Steam Mach.)</fld> <def>The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a <i>follower</i>. See <i>Illust</i>. of <cref>Stuffing box</cref>, under <er>Stuffing</er>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.</def>

<h1>Glandage</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glan"dage</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>glandage</ets>. See <er>Gland</er>.]</ety> <def>A feeding on nuts or mast.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Crabb.</i>

<h1>Glandered</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glan"dered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Affected with glanders; <as>as, a <ex>glandered</ex> horse</as>.</def>