Word Meanings - LEADMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who leads a dance. B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to LEADMAN)
- DANCER
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. - DANCERESS
A female dancer. Wyclif. - DANCETTE
Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon. - LEADSMAN
The man who heaves the lead. Totten. - DANCE
apinsan, and prob. from the same root as E. 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, to the sound of music; to trip or leap - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - AIDANCE
Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak. - TENDANCE
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - ABUNDANCE
An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been - OUTRECUIDANCE
Excessive presumption. B. Jonson. - FORBIDDANCE
The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton. - ADANCE
Dancing. Lowell. - VOIDANCE
A ejection from a benefice. 3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. 4. Evasion; subterfuge. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating. - ABIDANCE
The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance . The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps. - RIDDANCE
1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker. - ABODANCE
An omen; a portending. - DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor. - CONTRADANCE
A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. - AVOIDANCE
1. The act of annulling; annulment. 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. Wolsey, . . .