glancing
noun1
A sideways look; a glance.
- No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.1856, David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?:
glancing
adjUK /ˈɡlɑːn.sɪŋ/ · US /ˈɡlæn.sɪŋ/
1
Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
- His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.
- She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery. It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 324–325: