Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Glance \Glance\, v. t.
   1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a
      moment; as, to glance the eye.

   2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]

            In company I often glanced it.        --Shak.

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.

Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
   glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. {Gleen},
   {Glint}, {Glitter}, and {Glance} a mineral.]
   1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.

            Swift as the lightning glance.        --Milton.

   2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
      swift survey; a glimpse.

            Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.

   3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

            How fleet is a glance of the mind.    --Cowper.

   4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
      dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
      the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.

   {Glance coal}, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
      carbon.

   {Glance cobalt}, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.

   {Glance copper}, chalcocite.

   {Glance wood}, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
      gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.

Source : WordNet®

glance
     n : a quick look [syn: {glimpse}, {coup d'oeil}]

glance
     v 1: throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced
          at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything
          interesting" [syn: {peek}, {glint}]
     2: rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several
        lampposts" [syn: {carom}]