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monly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhytmically. Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. Wiher. Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your dauther Shak.

One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

An omen; a portending. [Obs.]

ble to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay.

Dancing. Lowell.

Aid. [R.] Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.

Something appendant.

Same as Ascendency.

Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.] Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13.

id by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

Agreement; accordance. Contrasts, and yet concordances. Carlyle.

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

See Contradance. He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. Macualay.

See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.

ality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.

ommand or edict against a thing. [Obs.] ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.