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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,436 words match “ANCE”

OBEISANCE n. 2 definitions

ression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. 1 Kings i. 16.

OBLANCEOLATE a.

Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

OBSERVANCE n. 3 definitions

practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties. It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak.

OPERANCE; OPERANCY n.

The act of operating or working; operation. [R.]

ORDINANCE n. 5 definitions

Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer.

ns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, co…

e parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.

; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.

The utmost or last extremity. Combat à outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.

OUTRECUIDANCE n.

Excessive presumption. [R.] B. Jonson.

To exceed in romantic character. [R.] Fuller.

OVATE-LANCEOLATE a.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

OVERBALANCE v. 3 definitions

To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.

To glance over.

The pansy. [Also paunce.]

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

PENANCE n. 4 definitions

Repentance. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).

Free from penance. [R.]

PENETRANCE; PENETRANCY n.

The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.