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A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.

To announce beforehand. Coleridge.

ds or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

Capable of being pronounced.

Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.

The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.

One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.

ine formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.

The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.

One who renounces.

The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes. [Obs.]

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]

See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

rom the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.