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Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. Goldsmith.

On or toward one side; laterally; sideways. I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. Emerson.

Amorous glance or inclination. [Obs.] "A smickering to our young lady." Dryden.

To play; to frolic; to wanton. [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. Milton.

wander at random; to scatter. [R.] The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool. Shak.

To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. Some can squint when they will. Bacon.

ic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.

A monument to the dead; a gravestone. Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. Pope.

A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Superscription. [Obs.] "I will overglance the superscript." Shak.

c. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2. Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite. -- Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium.

To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer. [Obs.] Which maids will twire 'tween their fingers. B. Jonson. I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee. Beau. & Fl.

A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is dis…