4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.
GLAMOURIE
Glam"ou*rie, n.
Defn: Glamour. [Scot.]
GLANCE
Glance, n. Etym: [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G. glanz, Sw.
glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen, Glint, Glitter, and
Glance a mineral.]
1. A sudden flash of light or splendor. Swift as the lightning glance. Milton.
2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.
3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion. How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper.
4. (Min.)
Defn: A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. — Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. — Glance copper, c — Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath.
GLANCE
Glance, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Glancing.]