different between haunce vs daunce

English

Noun

haunce (plural haunces)

1. (obsolete, historical) Alternative form of hanse.

Verb

haunce (third-person singular simple present haunces, present participle hauncing, simple past and past participle haunced)

1. (obsolete) To enhance.
   • a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Complaint of the Black Knight

     They haunce her cause with fals surquedrie

References

• haunce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• nuchae, unache

English

Noun

daunce (plural daunces)

1. Obsolete form of dance.

Verb

daunce (third-person singular simple present daunces, present participle dauncing, simple past and past participle daunced)

1. Obsolete form of dance.

Anagrams

• undeca-

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dance, danse, daunse

Etymology

Anglo-Norman daunce, variant of Old French dance.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /dau?nts?/, /dants?/
• IPA^(key): /dau?ns(?)/, /dans(?)/

Noun

daunce (plural daunces)

1. dance; dancing
2. dance song

Related terms

• dauncen

Descendants

• English: dance

References

• “daunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.

Old French

Noun

daunce f (oblique plural daunces, nominative singular daunce, nominative plural daunces)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dance