Dance

dans, v.i. to move with measured steps to music: to spring.— v.t. to make to dance or jump.— n. the movement of one or more persons with measured steps to music: the tune to which dancing is performed.— ns. Dance′-mū′sic , music specially arranged for accompanying dancing; Danc′er , one who practises dancing; Danc′ing , the act or art of moving in the dance; Danc′ing-girl , a profe ional dancer; Danc′ing-mas′ter , a teacher of dancing.— Dance a bear ( obs. ), to exhibit a performing bear; Dance attendance , to wait obsequiously; Dance of death , a series of allegorical paintings symbolising the universal power of death, represented as a skeleton; Dance upon nothing , to be hanged.— Lead a person a dance , to set him on an undertaking under false hopes: to delude.— Merry dancers , the aurora. [O. Fr. danser , from Teut.; Old High Ger. dans on , to draw along.]