GLANCE Copy link • GLANCE 1. s. Sudden shoot of splendor, fulgur. To emit glances, coruscare (Vid: Döderlein, Syn. 2, 81). Darting of sight, aspectus: (oculorum) obtutus: to exchange stolen glances, furtim inter se aspicere: to throw a rapid glance on any subject, aliquid leviter transire, ac tantummodo perstringere; celeriter perstringere aliquid; breviter perstringere aliquid atque attingere (Cic.): aliquid quasi per transennam praeteriens strictim aspicio (Cic., De Or. 1, 35, 162). A single glance, unus conspectus or aspectus: to place anything so that it may be taken in at a single glance, aliquid in uno conspectu ponere; aliquid sub unura aspectum subjicere: at the first glance, primo aspectu; prima specie (according to its first appearance); uno aspectu et quasi praeteriens (IMPROP.; e.g., to pass judgement on any object of art, etc., at the first glance); ex prima statim fronte (e.g., dijudicare aliquid, Quint., with reference to the mere outside, as it were). 2. v. Shoot rays of light, etc., coruscare: micare (to glance rapidly). Dart the eyes at. To glance at anybody or anything, oculos in aliquid conjicere: oculos or os in aliquem conjicere: aspectum or oculos aliquo convertere: oculis videre, lustrare, perlustrare, or obire aliquid. To touch superficially, stringere: praestringere. The bullet struck his side and glanced off, *glans latus ejus strinxit: the lightning struck his couch and glanced off, lecticam ejus fulgur praestrinxit. To take a hasty view (of a book, etc.) [Vid: “to take a hasty GLANCE,” “to go through anything CURSORILY”]. To glance at anybody (= to allude to him indirectly, in the way of reproach), perstringere aliquem: oblique perstringere aliquem (indirectly): designare aliquem (oratione sua): spectare or respicere aliquid.