glaunce

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A form of glance — To turn (one's eyes or look) at something, often briefly.

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Meanings

verbglaunce (third-person singular simple present glaunces, present participle glauncing, simple past and past participle glaunced or glaunst)

present singular third person glaunces · participle present glauncing · participle past glaunced · past glaunced · participle past glaunst · past glaunst

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of glance.

    A has a little gald me I confeſſe: / And as the Ieſt did glaunce avvaie from me, […]

    c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 228, column 1
nounglaunce (plural glaunces)

plural glaunces

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of glance.

    [W]hen Marcus Philoſophus came in, Sylenus vvas grauelled, and out of countenance, not knovving vvhere to carpe at him, ſaue at the laſt, he gaue a glaunce at his patience tovvards his vvife.

    1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 35, verso
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APA

glaunce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glaunce

MLA

“glaunce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glaunce. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glaunce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glaunce.

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