Dance. (intransitive) To take up a position and perform a number of steps with one's face to one's partner or to the dancer on one's right or left…

Of partners in dancing: To move to and fro in converse directions like the arms of a balance, to set to a partner.

intransitive. In country dancing: to perform a figure in which dancers join both hands with a partner and change places with another couple. Also…

as verb phr.: (a) in dancing, denoting the movement in which the lady passes under her partner's arm, their hands being joined; (b) to pass in and…