Glanced, seeing cephalopod ingesting odd bits of nutmeg (8)
I believe the answer is:
squinted
'glanced' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with perception as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'cephalopod ingesting odd bits of nutmeg' is the wordplay.
'cephalopod' becomes 'squid' (squid is a kind of cephalopod).
'ingesting' is an insertion indicator.
'odd bits of' means one should take alternating letters.
The alternate letters of 'nutmeg' are 'nte'.
'squid' enclosing 'nte' is 'SQUINTED'.
'seeing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for squinted that I've seen before include "Looked at something with eyes half-shut" , "Looked with partly closed eyes" .)