n. The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). [ 1913 Webster ]

The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

A judicious abidance by rules. Helps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bode. ] An omen; a portending. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. (h)abundaunce, abundance, F. abondance, L. abundantia, fr. abundare. See Abound. ] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. -- Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. acordance. ] Agreement; harmony; conformity. “In strict accordance with the law.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Harmony; unison; coincidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Dancing. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aidance. ] Aid. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Something appendant. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Same as Ascendency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. attendance, OF. atendance, fr. atendre, F. attendre. See Attend, v. t. ] 1. Attention; regard; careful application. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Constant attendance at church three times a day. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Waiting for; expectation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. [ 1913 Webster ]

If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of annulling; annulment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. “The avoidance of pain.” Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The courts by which anything is carried off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. concordantia. ] 1. Agreement; accordance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contrasts, and yet concordances. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. [ Obs. ] Aschlam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. [ 1913 Webster ]

His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. contra- + dance: cf. F. contrdance. Cf. Country-dance. ] A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. an adaptation of contradance. ] See Contradance. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Danced p. pr. & vb. n. Dancing. ] [ F. danser, fr. OHG. dansōn to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, Goth. apinsan, and prob. from the same root (meaning to stretch) as E. thin. See Thin. ] 1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. Wither. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good shepherd, what fair swain is this
Which dances with your daughter? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then, 'tis time to dance off. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

More dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dance on a rope, or
To dance on nothing, to be hanged. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy grandsire loved thee well;
Many a time he danced thee on his knee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dance attendance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of his place, and so near our favor,
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. danse, of German origin. See Dance, v. i. ] 1. The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word dance was used ironically, by the older writers, of many proceedings besides dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of remedies of love she knew parchance
For of that art she couth the olde dance. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dance of Death (Art), an allegorical representation of the power of death over all, -- the old, the young, the high, and the low, being led by a dancing skeleton. --
Morris dance. See Morris. --
To lead one a dance, to cause one to go through a series of movements or experiences as if guided by a partner in a dance not understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dances or who practices dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female dancer. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. danché dancetté, dent tooth. ] (Her.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., , n. See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The forms dependant, dependance, dependancy are from the French; the forms dependent, etc., are from the Latin. Some authorities give preference to the form dependant when the word is a noun, thus distinguishing it from the adjective, usually written dependent. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. discordance. ] State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How hast thou yield to transgress
The strict forbiddance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the
Ghost-dance, or
Messiah,
religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Guide. ] The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. [ 1913 Webster ]

His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Impede + -ance. ] (Elec.) The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2πfL, where f = frequency and L = self-inductance; for a circuit with capacity X = 1 ÷ 2πfC, where C = capacity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Wrong guidance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. outre beyond + cuider to think, L. cogitare. ] Excessive presumption. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Remembrance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. redundantia: cf. F. redondance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Labor . . . throws off redundacies. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. “Riddance from all adversity.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. superabundantia: cf. OF. superabondance. ] The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Tend to attend, and cf. Attendance. ] 1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. [ Archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breath
Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Persons in attendance; attendants. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A ejection from a benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Evasion; subterfuge. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or power of wielding. [ Obs. ] “Our weak wieldance.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of yielding; concession. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]