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To betroth; to affiance. [Obs.] Harmar.

A betrothed woman.

an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon.

Flagrancy. Bp. Hall.

The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton.

mmand or edict against a thing. [Obs.] ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.

a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.

The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress. I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith. Phil. i. 25. Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. Emerson.

One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.

A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Mes…

A sudden flash of light or splendor. Swift as the lightning glance. Milton.

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.

uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.

One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. [Obs.] Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.

Guardianship. [Obs.]

Government. [Obs.]

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay.

Dwelling; abode; residence. [Obs.] Spenser.

To raise; to elevate. [Obs.] Lydgate.

See Hanse.