*ounce*

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 ]

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 ]

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. [ 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. & 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 ]

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

v. i. To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ornamented with perforations or dots. [ Obs. ] “Gilt bowls pounced and pierced.” Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Cf. F. poncette, fr. ponce pounce. See Pounce a powder. ] A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To announce beforehand. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pronounced p. pr. & vb. n. Pronounging ] [ F. prononcer, L. pronunciare; pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See Announce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sternly he pronounced
The rigid interdiction. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud. [ 1913 Webster ]

The God who hallowed thee and blessed,
Pronouncing thee all good. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. pronunciabilis declarative. ] Capable of being pronounced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. prononcé. ] Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [ A Gallicism ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ His ] views became every day more pronounced. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Card Playing) Act of renouncing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Renounced p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing ] [ F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation. ] 1. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. [ 1913 Webster ]

This world I do renounce, and in your sights
Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Card Playing) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego; resign; relinquish; give up; abdicate. -- Renounce, Abjure, Recant. -- To renounce is to make an affirmative declaration of abandonment. To abjure is to renounce with, or as with, the solemnity of an oath. To recant is to renounce or abjure some proposition previously affirmed and maintained. [ 1913 Webster ]

From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace
Can force me to renounce the honor of my race. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Either to die the death, or to abjure
Forever the society of man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make renunciation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He of my sons who fails to make it good,
By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. W. D. Christie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. renoncement. ] The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who renounces. [ 1913 Webster ]