Askance, adv. with a sidelong glance, with a look of indifference or disdain: “taking no notice that she is so nigh, for all a. he holds her in his eye,” Ven. 342. “I have looked on truth a. and strangely,” Sonn. 110, 6. “thou canst not frown, thou canst not look a.” Shr. II, 249.