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eyeglance

noun
/ˈʌɪɡlɑːns/UK

Etymology

From eye + glance.

  1. derived from *weng-✻ — “to bend”
  2. derived from *wankijan✻ — “to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”
  3. derived from guenchir
  4. derived from glaciēs — “ice”
  5. derived from *glacia✻
  6. derived from glacier
  7. inherited from glenchen — “of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; of a person: to turn quickly aside, dodge”
  8. compounded as eyeglance — “eye + glance”

Definitions

  1. A glance of the eye.

    • And ever, as Dissemblaunce laught on him, / He lowrd on her with daungerous eyeglaunce […].
    • Perilous as her eyeglances were, and much as they menaced, Lord Etherington felt at this moment the importance of soothing Lady Penelope to silence […].
    • The sideways eye glance is a widespread expression combining a lowered head and the eyes looking sideways, thus taking advantage of boldness and shyness at the same time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eyeglance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA