Glance

gla A sudden shoot of light; than sudden darting of the sight; brief turning of the of attention to a thing. (Min.) Any mineral having a metallic or semi-metallic luster. — v. i. [glanced or (glanst), glancing.] To dart a ray of light; to fly strike, off obliquely from an object struck; to snatch a moutter mentary or hasty view; to make an incidental or pa ing" instant at reflection, a time; to allude; twinkle.— to be v. visible t. To shoot only or for dart an enclothsuddenly or obliquely. sur- Gland, gland, n. (Anat.) A simple or complex organ tor secreting, absorbing, or changing some peculiar or substance from the blood or animal fluids. (Bot.) A Any cellular spot or prominence which secretes^il or aroma; any very small prominence. (Steam Mach.) The esp. a cover of a stuffing-box. (Mach.) A cro -piece or the clutch for engaging machinery moved by belts. — bind Glans, w. (Anat.) The vascular body forming the make apex of the penis. (Med.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland; bronchocele; goiter; a pe ary. — sur- Gland'ular, -ulous, -lus, a. Containing, consisting of, or like glands. — Gland'ers, n. (Far.) A highly contagious disease of the mucous membrane in horses. body; Glare, glar, n. A bright, dazzling light; a fierce, pier- Girl'- cing look. —v. i. [glared (glard), glaring.] To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light: to look with fierce, piercing eyes; to be ostentatiously point P)lendid. — v. t. To shoot out, or emit (light). —a. olished so as to reflect light brightly; smooth; slippery; glib. to Gla , glas, v. A hard, brittle, transparent substance, formed by fusing silica with fixed alkalies, etc.; anything made of gla ,— esp. a looking-gla ; mirror; a opingla filled with running sand for measuring time, or alt he time in which a gla is exhausted of its sand; a pro drinking-gla ; tumbler; an optical gla ; lens; spy or glas; — in pi. spectacles. A barometer. — v. t. n. [gla ed (glast), gla ing.] To see, as in a gla ; enreflect, as in a mirror; to cover with gla ; glaze. — Glaze, v. t. [glazed (glazd), glazing.] To furnish with gla , as a window; to cover or overlay with a bene vitreous or shining substance; to vitrify the surface To of: to render smooth or glo y. — v. i. To a ume a gla y luster. — n. The vitreous coating of pottery ali or porcelain; glazing. (Cookery.) Broth boiled down to a gelatinous paste, to put on braised dishes. — Glaz'er, n. A worlftnan who glazes pottery, etc.; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, etc.; a icy; a wooden wheel covered with emery or with an alloy or ring of lead and tin, for polishing cutlery, etc. — Gla'zier, -zher, n. One whose busine is to set gla . — Glazing, n. Act or art of setting gla , or of or crusting with a vitreous substance, or of polishing, smoothing, or rendering glo y; gla or gla -like substance with which any surface is incrusted or joy overlaid. sex- Gleam, glem, n. A shoot of light; beain; ray; brightne ; ing.] To splendor, shoot, —v. or dart i. [gleamed (light); to (glemd"), shine, cast gleam light; to glimmer, glitter.