Story behind the song
glance 1 |glans|
verb [ intrans. ]
1 take a brief or hurried look : Ginny glanced at her watch.
• ( glance at/through) read quickly or cursorily : I glanced through your personnel file last night.
2 hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely : he saw a stone glance off a crag and hit Tom on the head.
• (esp. of light) reflect off something with a brief flash : sunlight glanced off the curved body of a dolphin.
• [ trans. ] (in ball games) deflect (the ball) slightly with a delicate contact : he glanced the ball into the right corner of the net.
noun
1 a brief or hurried look : Sean and Michael exchanged glances.
2 poetic/literary a flash or gleam of light.
PHRASES
at a glance immediately upon looking : she saw at a glance what had happened.
at first glance when seen or considered for the first time, esp. briefly : good news, at first glance, for frequent travelers.
glance one's eye archaic look briefly : glancing his severe eye around the group.
DERIVATIVES
glancingly |?glons??li| adverb
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.
glance 2 |glons| |gl??ns|
noun
a shiny sulfide ore of lead, copper, or other metal.
