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making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson.

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

To announce beforehand. Coleridge.

s 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.

Purveyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ne 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.]

Salience; onslaught. [Obs.] "So fierce saliaunce." Spenser.

A summons; a citation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Remembrance. [Obs.] Of his way he had no sovenance. Spenser.

See Trance. [Obs.]

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