[ɡlɑːns], (Verb)

Definitions:
- take a brief or hurried look
(e.g: Ginny glanced at her watch)

- hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely
(e.g: the stone glanced off a crag and hit Tom on the head)


Phrases:
- at a glance
- at first glance
- glance one's eye

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘rebound obliquely’): probably a nasalized form of obsolete glace in the same sense, from Old French glacier ‘to slip’, from glace ‘ice’, based on Latin glacies

[ɡlɑːns], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a brief or hurried look
(e.g: I stole a glance at John)

- a flash or gleam of light
(e.g: fish … sporting with quick glance, Show to the Sun their wav'd coats)

- a stroke with the bat's face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly


Phrases:
- at a glance
- at first glance
- glance one's eye

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘rebound obliquely’): probably a nasalized form of obsolete glace in the same sense, from Old French glacier ‘to slip’, from glace ‘ice’, based on Latin glacies

[ɡlɑːns], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a shiny black or grey sulphide ore of lead, copper, or other metal
(e.g: lead glance)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from German Glanz ‘brightness, lustre’; compare with Dutch glanserts ‘glance ore’