glancing

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
glance1

▶verb

• 1 take a brief or hurried look.

  ■ (glance at/through) read quickly or cursorily.

• 2 (often glance off) strike at an angle and bounce off obliquely.

▶noun

• 1 a brief or hurried look.

• 2 archaic a flash or gleam of light.

• 3 Cricket a stroke with the bat's face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly.

– derivatives
glancing adjective,
glancingly adverb.

– origin ME: prob. a nasalized form of obs. glace, from OFr. glacier ‘to slip’, from glace ‘ice’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
glance2

▶noun a shiny black or grey sulphide ore of lead, copper, or other metal.

– origin ME: from Ger. Glanz ‘brightness, lustre’.