n. A sudden shoot of light or splendor; a transient gleam.n. A sudden look; a rapid or momentary view or directing of the eye; a sudden and brief turning of the attention toward something.n. A brief incidental notice; a passing reference: as, a rapid glance at the remote cause of an event.n. A sudden change of direction of the motion of a projectile or other moving body, due to contact with a deflecting surface; deflected motion.n. In mining and mineralogy, the English equivalent of the German glanz, a term used by German miners to designate various ores possessing that peculiar luster and color which indicate that they are metalliferous combinations.To shoot or dart a ray or rays of light or splendor; emit flashes or coruscations of light; flash.To appear and disappear rapidly, like a gleam of light; be visible for an instant.To look with a sudden rapid directing of the vision; snatch a momentary or hasty view.To make an incidental or passing reflection or allusion; hint; advert briefly.To be deflected and move off in an oblique direction; move obliquely.To cause to shoot or dart, as a ray of light; reflect, as a gleam.To direct rapidly and for a moment, as the eye or the attention.To suggest; hint.n. In railroading, an incline or shoot made of timber, erected on a mountainside and designed to cause snow which slides down the mountain to glance or turn aside from the track.n. In cricket, a stroke by which, instead of being hit, the ball is allowed to strike the bat and to be deflected from it, usually to the leg side; a glide.In metal-working, to polish very highly; burnish; planish.In cricket, to allow (the ball) to meet the bat and to be deflected from it, usually to the leg side.
