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glance

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Is glance a Scrabble word?

Yes, glance is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of glance?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive)Examples: "Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aſide, / What needſt thou wound with cunning when thy might / Is more then my ore-preſt defence can bide?"; "Vivian glanced a look, which would have been annihilation to any one, not a freeholder of five hundred acres."; "He, however, blenched not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed him, at last bent it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros."transitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "A horseman rode up as he spoke, and gave a letter. Claverhouse glanced it over, laughed scornfully, bade him tell his master to send his prisoners to Edinburgh, for there was no answer; […]"transitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "The bink, with its usual arrangement of pewter and earthenware, which was most strictly and critically clean, glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment."transitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion was ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the way, […]"; "[S]hould we croſs them, tho they ſhould ſee Shoals of Fiſh, or Turtle, or the like, they will purpoſely ſtrike their Harpoons and Turtle-irons aſide, or ſo glance them as to kill nothing."alsofigurativelytransitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "Doncaster paid the price two minutes later when [Kevin] Doyle sent [Stephen] Hunt away down the left and his pinpoint cross was glanced in by Fletcher for his sixth goal of the season."alsofigurativelytransitive

6. (transitive)alsofigurativelytransitive

noun (English)

1. (also figuratively) A brief or cursory look.Examples: "Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To wound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour."; "Hard to ſeeme wonne: but I was wonne my Lord / With the firſt glance; […]"; "[H]is ſupercilious glances grew humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]"alsocountablefigurativelyuncountable

2. (also figuratively) A quick movement that catches light, and causes a flash or glitter; also, the flash or glitter.Examples: "The ayre here is freſh and ſweet in the morning and towards Sunſet, but in the Sunnes perpendicular glances, wee found it hot and raging: […]"; "[E]ach Creek & Bay / With Frie innumerable ſwarme, and Shoales / Of Fiſh that with thir Finns and ſhining Scales / Glide under the green Wave, […] ſporting with quick glance / Show to the Sun thir wav’d coats dropt with Gold, […]"; "With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d / Loſe their defence diſtracted and amaz’d."alsocountablefigurativelyuncountable

3. (cricket) A stroke in which the ball is hit with a bat held in a slanted manner.countableuncountable

4. (ichthyology) Of certain juvenile fish, chiefly of the Cichlidae family: an act of rapidly touching the side of its parent's body, usually to feed on mucus.countableuncountable

5. (obsolete)countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (obsolete)Examples: "[W]hen Marcus Philoſophus came in, Sylenus was grauelled, and out of countenance, not knowing where to carpe at him, ſaue at the laſt, he gaue a glaunce at his patience towards his wife."; "[A]lbeit in that brief diſcourſe I made concerning the Red ſea and Carmania where I made mention of the Burial-place of Erythreus there are ſome glances at it; I ſhall nevertheleſs (as in the moſt proper place) ſpeak a little further upon that ſubject."countablefigurativelyobsoleteuncountable

noun (English)

1. (obsolete except in the names of certain minerals) Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.Examples: "copper glance    silver glance"; "The Oxides, Pyrites, Glances, and Blendes, might be so termed; thus we should have Tungstic Iron Oxide (usually called Tungstate of Iron), Arsenical Iron Pyrites (Mispickel), Tetrahedral Copper Glance (Fahlerz), Quicksilver Blende (Cinnabar), and the Metals might be termed native, as Native Copper, Native Silver."countableuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "glance"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "glance"?

Scrabble
9 points
G2
L1
A1
N1
C3
E1
Words With Friends
13 points
G3
L2
A1
N2
C4
E1

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