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One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.

To retard; to repel; to do damage to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ther person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.

The realm or domain of dunces. [Jocose] Carlyle.

Dullness; stupidity.

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.

Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

der; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.

a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton.

Without frounces. Rom. of R.

To enhance. [Obs.] Lydgate.

To ride hard; to jounce. [Obs.] Spurr'd, galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke. Shak.

To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

A balance. [Obs.] Fortune all in equal launce doth sway. Spenser.

See Langegaye. [Obs.]

To pronounce incorrectly.

Mountance. [Obs.]

Fig.: A small portion; a bit. [Obs.] By ounces hung his locks that he had. Chaucer. Fluid ounce. See under Fluid, n.

The pansy. "The pretty paunce." Spenser.