Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Glancing \Glan"cing\, a.
   1. Shooting, as light.

            When through the gancing lightnings fly. --Rowe.

   2. Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a
      glancing shot.

Glance \Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glanced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Glancing}.]
   1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.

            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.