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Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.

Impenitence. [R.]

Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.

The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] Coleridge.

ferent countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.

Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.

that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. [Written also valence.] Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak.

The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor. [Obs.] "His doughty valiance." Spenser.

. That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Shak.

ution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. Milton.

Extremely; excessively. [Obs.] "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.

The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

Vociferation; noise; clamor. [R.] R. Browning.

The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.

The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.

Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.] Shak.

The act or power of wielding. [Obs.] "Our weak wieldance." Bp. Hall.

An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. [R.] Bp. Hall.