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ance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

(Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. Nares.

The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. [Obs] Nares.

rors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.

A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Nares.

An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.

To stammer. [Obs.] Nares.

the short run before a leap. [Obs.] Nares.

To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.

A confection of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

To lay snares for rabbits. Huloet.

A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] Nares.

One who insnares.