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ˈside-glance, n.
[side n.1]
A glance directed sideways.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Queue, To cast a side-glaunce at. 1709Steele Tatler No. 13 ⁋1 When a well-made Man appeared, he was sure to have a Side-glance of Observation. 1752Sir H. Beaumont Crito 24 The Fascination, or stroke of Love, is most usually, I believe, conveyed, at first, in a Side-glance. 1888J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge xxiii, ‘My lads,’ said he with a side-glance at the girls, ‘I have got news for you.’
b. fig. An indirect or slight reference.
1831R. Blakey Free-Will 4 Some writers pass by the doctrine of free-will with a side glance. 1860Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. (1871) iv. 82 Yet it has been with at least a side-glance to questions of this sort.
So ˈside-glance v.
1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 182/1 But from th' effulgence of a distant eye, Or by the side-glanc'd light'ning pierc'd we die. 1901G. Douglas Ho. w. Green Shutters 35 A big..man, whose little side-glancing eyes seemed always alert for scandal. |