different between paunce vs haunce

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. (obsolete) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.

Related terms

• paunch

Etymology 2

See pansy.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. Obsolete form of pansy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]

Anagrams

• uncape

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pawnce, pauns, pauncs

Etymology

From Old French pance, from Latin panticem, accusative of pantex. Doublet of paunche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pau?ns(?)/, /?pans(?)/

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. paunce (piece of armour)

Descendants

• English: paunce

References

• “paunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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