单词 | to glance on |
释义 | > as lemmasto glance on a. intransitive. Of a weapon: To glide off an object struck, without delivering the full effect of the blow. Also to glance aside, off. to glance on: to strike obliquely upon and turn aside. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > move obliquely > glide off obliquely gliff?c1225 twinec1400 glancea1500 slant?1521 glenta1533 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > glance off glace13.. glancea1500 a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiii. 198 The stroke of the ax glenched, and smote the horse bakke a-sonder. c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvi. 250 The helmet was hard and þe swerd glenced asyde & dommaged hym nought. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 30 Most of their volees of arrowes should have..glaunced or lighted upon the piques. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 309 And from Ctesippus' arm the spear elanc'd On good Eumæus' shield and shoulder glanc'd. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 61 The blow only glanced on the bone, and scarce drew blood. 1882 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. IV. 245 The heaviest shot glanced harmlessly from the sides of the assailing vessels. < as lemmas |
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