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单词 to glance on
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to 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.
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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
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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.
figurative and in extended use.a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 63 As the Iest did glaunce awaie from me, 'Tis ten to one it maim'd you too out right.1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 239 Their projects,..doe often glance or fall upon some other Object, then they thought of.1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xx. 323 He..means that rebuke to glance off on him who has put forth on this day his power to help and to save.
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