trances

v. t. To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter. ] 1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. “Beware of entrance to a quarrel.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Entranced p. pr. & vb. n. Entrancing ] [ Pref. en- + trance. ] 1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him, still entranced and in a litter laid,
They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I so ravished with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. filled with wonder and delight.
Syn. -- beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a passage allowing entry or exit; an entryway.
Syn. -- entrance, entryway. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as enthralling.
Syn. -- bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. monstrantia, fr. L. monstrare to show: cf. OF. monstrance. See Monster. ] (R. C. Ch.) A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Outré. ] The utmost or last extremity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Combat a outrance, a fight to the end, or to the death.
Syn. -- fight to the finish. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power or quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act entering again; reentry. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. remonstrance, F. remonstrance. See Remonstrate. ] 1. The act of remonstrating; as: (a) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You may marvel why I . . . would not rather
Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
Than let him be so lost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R.C.Ch.) Same as Monstrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

an entrance for use of servants and those providing services, such as deliveries or repair work. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die, L. transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A tedious journey. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. [ 1913 Webster ]

He fell down in a trance. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tranced p. pr. & vb. n. Trancing ] 1. To entrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

And three I left him tranced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pass over or across; to traverse. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Trance the world over. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

When thickest dark did trance the sky. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]