Contextualizebeta

upglance

noun

Etymology

From up- + 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. prefixed as upglance — “up + glance”

Definitions

  1. An upwards glance.

    • See him bend over the woman, and the upglance of her eyes as she speaks.
    • "Well, we'll have a good start at all events," said Merle, with a merry little upglance.
    • Nobody had as yet told Emily how very winsome that shy, sudden, upglance of hers was.

  2. To glance upwards.

    • I stood beside her couch, with her thin fingers clasped round my hand ever so long, looking down at the earnest eyes upglancing from the pillow.
    • Or the rapturous light that upglances From the eyes of a myriad Loves.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for upglance. 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