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To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. Now rule thy prancing steed. Gay.

A horse which prances. Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer. Evelyn.

Previous assurance. Coleridge.

position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. Macaulay.

swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also s…

A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.

Recovery. [Obs.]

A second deliverance.

The act entereing again; re Hooker.

Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.

t of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. Addison.

keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder. Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. Goldsmith. Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. Isa. lxii. 6. (Rev. Ver. ).

proof; demonstration. [Obs.] You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost. Shak.

Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. Milman.

Soreness. [Obs.]

Same as Sorance. [Obs.]

The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak.

Sufferance. [Obs.] Chaucer.