v. t. [ L. abrenuntiare; ab + renuntiare. See Renounce. ] To renounce. [ Obs. ] “They abrenounce and cast them off.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Accustomance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Announced p. pr. & vb. n. Announcing ] [ OF. anoncier, F. annoncer, fr. L. annuntiare; ad + nuntiare to report, relate, nuntius messenger, bearer of news. See Nuncio, and cf. Annunciate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her [ Q. Elizabeth's ] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Publish laws, announce
Or life or death. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To proclaim; publish; make known; herald; declare; promulgate. -- To Publish, Announce, Proclaim, Promulgate. We publish what we give openly to the world, either by oral communication or by means of the press; as, to publish abroad the faults of our neighbors. We announce what we declare by anticipation, or make known for the first time; as, to announce the speedy publication of a book; to announce the approach or arrival of a distinguished personage. We proclaim anything to which we give the widest publicity; as, to proclaim the news of victory. We promulgate when we proclaim more widely what has before been known by some; as, to promulgate the gospel. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. stated publicly; as, their announced intentions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who announces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ancestry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ See Advance. ] To advance; to profit. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bounced p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing ] [ OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [ Collog. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bully; to scold. [ Collog. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bounce burst open the door. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.&unr_; [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]

This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. Bickerstaff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boaster; a bully. [ Collog. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bold lie; also, a liar. [ Collog. ] Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Something big; a good stout example of the kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a person employed by a tavern, nightclub, or other place of public meeting, to eject persons who become violent or unruly. [ PJC ]

n. a sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.
Syn. -- windfall, gravy, godsend. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Denounced p. pr. & vb. n. Denouncing. ] [ F. dénoncer, OF. denoncier, fr. L. denuntiare, denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a messenger, message. See Nuncio, and cf. Denunciate. ] 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

His look denounced desperate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Denounced for a heretic. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. denoncement. ] Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Disadvance. ] To retard; to repel; to do damage to. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Joannes Duns Scotus, a schoolman called the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308. Originally in the phrase “a Duns man”. See Note below. ] One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or Duncemen. In the revival of learning they were violently opposed to classical studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one slow at learning, a dullard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The realm or domain of dunces. [ Jocose ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dullness; stupidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enounced p. pr. & vb. n. Enouncing ] [ F. énoncer, L. enuntiare; e out + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuntius messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Enunciate. ] 1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter; to articulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The student should be able to enounce these [ sounds ] independently. A. M. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of enouncing; that which is enounced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flounced p. pr. & vb. n. Flouncing ] [ Cf. OSw. flunsa to immerge. ] To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

With his broad fins and forky tail he laves
The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. flaus, flausch, a tuft of wool or hair; akin to vliess, E. fleece; or perh. corrupted fr. rounce. ] An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Fluid ounce, under Fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Frounced p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing ] [ OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See Front, and cf. Flounce part of a dress. ] To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without frounces. Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enhance. [ Obs. ] Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OF. jancer. Cf. Jounce, Jaunt. ] To ride hard; to jounce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Spurr'd, galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Jounced p. pr. & vb. n. Jouncing ] [ Cf. Jaunce. ] To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A jolt; a shake; a hard trot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. lance, L. lanx, lancis, plate, scale of a balance. Cf. Balance. ] A balance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune all in equal launce doth sway. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Lant, the fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lancegaye. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Mispronounced p. pr. & vb. n. Mispronouncing ] To pronounce incorrectly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mountance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. once, fr. L. uncia a twelfth, the twelfth part of a pound or of a foot: cf. Gr. 'o`gkos bulk, mass, atom. Cf. 2d Inch, Oke. ] 1. A unit of mass or weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 28.35 grams or 4371/2 grains. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Troy Weight) The twelfth part of a troy pound; one troy ounce weighs 31.103486 grams, 8 drams, or 480 grains. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The troy ounce contains twenty pennyweights, each of twenty-four grains, or, in all, 480 grains, and is the twelfth part of the troy pound. The troy ounce is also a weight in apothecaries' weight. [ Troy ounce is sometimes written as one word, troyounce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: A small portion; a bit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By ounces hung his locks that he had. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fluid ounce. See under Fluid, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. once; cf. It. lonza, Sp. onza; prob. for lonce, taken as l'once, fr. L. lynx, Gr. &unr_;, or an (assumed) fem. adj. lyncea, from lynx. Cf. Lynx. ] (Zool.) A feline quadruped (Felis irbis syn. Felis uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Pansy. ] (Bot.) The pansy. “The pretty paunce.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ponce pumice, pounce, fr. L. pumex, -icis, pumice. See Pumice. ] 1. A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. --
Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pounded p. pr. & vb. n. Pouncing ] To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. through French, from an assumed LL. punctiare to prick, L. pungere, punctum. See Puncheon, Punch, v. t. ] 1. The claw or talon of a bird of prey. Spenser. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A punch or stamp. [ Obs. ] “A pounce to print money with.” Withals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cloth worked in eyelet holes. [ Obs. ] Homilies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now pounce him lightly,
And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]