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Webster 1828 Edition

, HAUNCE, for enhance. [See Enhance.]

See also: hance

Hance

See also: Hance

hance ‎(third-person singular simple present hances, present participle hancing, simple past and past participle hanced)

(transitive, obsolete) To raise, to elevate.
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Anglo-Norman, from Old French haulce.

hance ‎(plural hances)

A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
  He wears a minimal white cotton brief, and is pleased by the hance of its pouch, a catenary dip as he faces the mirror, the profile navicular and ostent.