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Word Meanings - LEADMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who leads a dance. B. Jonson.

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  • 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, . . .

 

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