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490 words match “DANCE”

GHOST DANCE n.
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…
GUIDANCE n.
e or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay.
IMPEDANCE n.
The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2pfL, where f =…
MISGUIDANCE n.
Wrong guidance.
NONATTENDANCE n.
A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
NONREGARDANCE n.
Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [Obs.] Shak.
OUTRECUIDANCE n.
Excessive presumption. [R.] B. Jonson.
RECORDANCE n.
Remembrance. [Obs.]
REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY n. 3 definitions
The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
RIDDANCE n. 2 definitions
ct of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22.
ROPEDANCER n.
One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.
SUPERABUNDANCE n.
The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
TENDANCE n. 2 definitions
The act of attending or waiting; attendance. [Archaic] Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson.
VOIDANCE n. 4 definitions
The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
WIELDANCE n.
The act or power of wielding. [Obs.] "Our weak wieldance." Bp. Hall.
YIELDANCE n. 2 definitions
The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. [R.] Bp. Hall.
ABOUND v.
To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with. To abound in, to posses in such abundance as to be characterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets…
ACCENTUALLY adv.
In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
ACCORDABLE a.
Reconcilable; in accordance.
ACCORDANCY n.
Accordance. [R.] Paley.
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