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A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

A garland carried before the bier of a maiden. [Obs.] Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maaiden strewments. Shak.

The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

One who declares. Abbott.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

Delirious. [Obs.] Owen.

A deodorizer.

Depurative.

See Durance, 3.

During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.

An edulcorant remedy.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

= Advancing edge.

One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." Bp. Terrot.

Equal as to number. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.

ng; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne.