haunce

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• nuchae, unache