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Fig.: A small portion; a bit. [Obs.] By ounces hung his locks that he had. Chaucer. Fluid ounce. See under Fluid, n.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

st notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

One who announces.

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.

One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.] Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. 18.

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. [Archaic] False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse. Sir T. Browne.

One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.

Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

nder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.

a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton.

Without frounces. Rom. of R.

To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

To pronounce incorrectly.

r 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.