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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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