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Webster 1828 Edition

Hances

HAN'CES

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Noun.

plu.

[L. ansa.] In architecture, the ends of elliptical arches, which are the arches of smaller circles than the scheme or middle part of the arch.

1.

In a ship, falls of the fife-rails placed on balusters on the poop and quarter-deck down to the gangway.