To look briefly (at something).
She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.
To graze a surface.
To sparkle.
The spring sunlight was glancing on the water of the pond.
To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.