prancen.

Brit.

/prɑːns/,

/prans/, U.S.

/præns/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prance v.

Etymology: < prance v.

1. The action of prancing; an instance of this; a movement or attitude suggestive of prancing. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stately or affected

cock pace1569

stalk1590

ambling1597

amble1607

strut1607

jetting1609

prance1648

grand pas1651

strutting1656

jet1686

to have a roll on1881

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > capering > a caper

gambol1509

gamond?a1513

frisco?1520

frisk1525

friscal1570

caprettie?1578

career1587

stotc1590

lavoltaa1592

caper1592

gambado1618

prance1648

capriccio1665

gambade1803

caper-cut1875

1648 H. Aldis Spie sent out of Tower-chamber sig. B1 The horsemens clatt'ring Armes, or horses Prances, Our Thundrings, Blundrings, Plundrings every day, I fear have scar'd him from us quite away.

1693 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 87 On Easter morn his prance Is o're.

1702 R. Steele Funeral iii. 44 The high Prance of the Horses, and the Brisk Insolence of the Servants in an Equipage of Quality, are Inimitable.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 182. ⁋11 A lady..whom by the jolting prance of her gait,..he guessed to have lately buried some prosperous citizen.

1783 C. Macklin True-born Irishman i. 26 When beauteous Diggerty leads up the dance In fair Britannia's court, Then ev'ry heart is in a prance, And longs for Cupid's sport.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 171 Onward these myriads—with song and dance, With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians' prance.

1835 T. S. Fay Leslie I. xiii. 96 He took every opportunity to display his fine person to advantage, and kept his horse in a continual prance.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xii. 161 Ethelberta..swept along the pavement and down the street in a turbulent prance.

1904 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant 243 I'm..as full of prance as a spotted circus horse.

1927 Blackwell's Mag. Oct. 536/1 Truly it was just ‘prance’, and..it was far from being the only piece of prancing to be met with in Digby's life.

1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. vii. 401 You can also make out Mr. Ward and Mrs. French in a bruegelish kimbo (peasant prance) at the farther end of the hall.

2005 Hindu (Nexis) 10 Nov. The yelp was replaced by a whine. The prance gave way to a limp.

†2. A trip, a jaunt. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

?1796 C. Dibdin Mounseer Nong Tong Paw 3 John Bull for pastime took a prance Some time ago, to peep at France.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prancev.

Brit.

/prɑːns/,

/prans/, U.S.

/præns/

Forms: Middle English–1500s praunse, Middle English–1500s prawnce, Middle English–1700s praunce, Middle English–1800s pranse, Middle English– prance, 1500s prauncheth (3rd singular present indicative, perhaps transmission error), 1800s– pronse (English regional (Yorkshire)).

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.The phonology and spelling of praunse , pranse , praunce , prance suggest a French origin, but no plausible French etymon has been identified. Compare prank v.¹, which corresponds closely in sense. Perhaps (in spite of its earlier attestation) an alteration of prank v.¹ by association with dance v. Perhaps compare oliprance n. Alternatively, perhaps compare Danish regional (North Jutland) pranse, prunse, (Danish Isles) prynse to go in a stately, proud fashion, and the related adjective prans, prons spirited, proud, although the resemblance may be coincidental. Similarly, perhaps compare also Middle High German spranz strutting, early modern German spranzen to strut (now German regional (south-western)). Apparently attested earlier as a surname: William Praunce (1318).

a. intransitive. To dance, gambol, caper. Now frequently with adverbial complement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper

leapc900

playOE

floxec1200

startlec1300

trancec1374

prancec1380

tripc1386

scoupa1400

prankc1450

gambol1508

frisk?1520

jeta1529

pract1568

trounce1568

trip1578

capriole1580

lavolta1590

linch1593

curvet1595

flisk1595

firk1596

caper1598

jaunce1599

risec1599

cabre1600

jaunt1605

skit1611

to cut a caper or capersa1616

tripudiate1623

insult1652

to fike and flinga1689

scamper1691

dance1712

pranklea1717

cavort1794

jinket1823

gambado1827

caracol1861

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 5341 (MED) Þe Ameral..prauncede & blew as he were wod, & miȝt noȝt speke for his heȝe mod.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 69^v Whanne þe modir wasschiþ & kembiþ hem [sc. children], þey kyken & praunsen & putte with feet & hondis.

c1450 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 307 (MED) Tho Jak and yc wenten to bedde; He prikede, and he pransede; nolde he neuer lynne.

c1475 Mankind (1969) 91 (MED) Yf ȝe wyll, ser, my brother wyll make yow to prawnce.

1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 398 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 293 And so thay wend thay weill dansit And did bot practit and pransit.

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew i. sig. C3^v Strike up Piper a merry dance That we on our stampers may foot it and prance.

1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 22 With Pride to prance; And (rightly manag'd) equal time to beat.

1790 D. Morison Poems 47 He tunes his win'some reed, The wee things loup and prance.

1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 93 Whilst they touzle, ramp, and prance, The carles took their gill.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxvi. 315 Two or more figures in uncouth masks..prance about in the circle to the sound of music.

1939 M. Dickens One Pair of Hands x. 169 I feel more like goin' to bed and sleeping for a week than prancing round the ballroom.

1988 R. Christiansen Romantic Affinities iii. 133 When their captor was absent..those left behind would, out of sheer relief, prance around giggling like schoolchildren.

b. intransitive. To move, walk, or behave in an ostentatious or arrogant manner; to swagger; to flounce. Frequently with adverbial complement. †Also transitive with it (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] > move or walk ostentatiously

trail1303

jeta1400

prancec1422

prankc1450

brank1568

promenade1699

parade1748

sashay1968

c1422 T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.) l. 824 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 139 A tale eek which I in the Romayn deedis Now late sy..Thogh I nat shapen be to prike or prance,—Wole I translate.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3400 (MED) They stond in altircacioune & stryff in poynt to praunce To depart yeur goodis.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. v. 8 Ilk ane of thaim, furth pransand lyke a lard.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 To Praunce, exultare.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. i. 24 How well resembles it the prime of Youth, Trimm'd like a Yonker, prauncing to his Loue?

c1641 Downfall of Pretended Div. Authoritie of Hierarchy 11 How they pierck and pranse it, above all Nobilitie and Gentry.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. x. 57 She bid the servant tell Lord G. that she desired his company. Lord G. was [= had] pranced out.

a1784 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1816) II. 68 (note) Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ-Church and All-Souls.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xvi. 138 Rawdon..pranced off to engage the lodgings with all the impetuosity of love.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xx. 194 The duke got out his book and read the parts over in the most splendid spread-eagle way, prancing around and acting at the same time.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 151 An elderly aunt..had put ten years' taxes with a lawyer and pranced off to Honolulu.

1999 S. Stewart Sharking xiv. 241 Tonty, who always taught in tight leather trousers, spent class prancing spitefully around insulting everyone.

2. intransitive. Of a person: to ride a prancing horse; to ride proudly or ostentatiously. †Also transitive with it (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride prancingly or ostentatiously

prancea1393

prankc1450

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1191 Wherof this man was wonder glad, And goth to prike and prance aboute.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 16102 (MED) Thei of Grece saw hem [sc. Amazons] com out So proudely praunsande & so stout.

c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 11 A prety propchaunt ye be for the nones And lustely ye praunsen whan ye ryde.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xiii. 4 Camylla..apon hyr foyn Prowdly pransys lyke a wench Amazon.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxiij^v Then vp pranced the Burgonyons and folowed the chace.

1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. i. 351 So make him my white jennet when I prance it After the Black Knight's litter.

1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk ii. 69 Those two that there beride him, And with such Graces Prance beside him.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 367 Like Troops of Amazons, the Female Band Prance round their Cars.

1803 T. Campbell Poems 1 Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Rose & Ring xvii His Majesty prancing in person at the head of them all.

1938 Open Road for Boys July 19/1 The judges were prancing up and down the arena on horses that were the pride of individual outfits.

a. intransitive. Of an animal, esp. a horse: to rise by springing from the hind legs; to move by a succession of such springs. †Also transitive, with allusion to sense 1a (obsolete rare).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > in stately or affected manner

prancea1398

jeta1400

prankc1450

strut1518

stalk1530

jotc1560

brank1568

piaffe1593

strit1597

swagger1600

stretch1619

prig1623

flutter1690

prink1696

jut1763

strunt1789

straddle1802

major1814

cakewalk1890

sashay1968

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > leap or prance

tripc1386

prancea1398

brank?1400

leapc1405

gambol?1507

curvet1584

jet1587

jaunt1605

scope1607

stilt1786

caracol1813

prank1842

cavort1843–4

tittup1862

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 264^v Wheþer he [sc. a lamb] is y-ladde to pasture or to deþ, he gruccheþ nouȝt nouþer praunseþ [L. calcitrat] not.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2064 (MED) Gryngolet..startez on þe ston; stod he no lenger to praunce.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 221 Though I praunce al byforn, First in the trays, ful fat and newe shorn, Yet am I but an hors.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 344 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 553 (MED) The Goos may gagle, the Hors may prike & praunce.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Cc.iiii A Lion saw... He praunced before, still seking for a make.

c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas i. in Wks. (1898) I. 783 Whil Phoebus' steeds abowt the Poles do praunce.

1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 26 Till the Suns Car-horses stand prancing on the very top of highest Noon.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 341 I have a little white favourite [horse]... He prances under me with so much fire.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1852) II. 445 The complete horseman..may let him sometimes prance and caper and curvet.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxiii. 44 Their chargers featly prance.

1858 W. Morris Eve of Crecy in Poems 168 Look you, my horse is good to prance A right fair measure in this war-dance.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vi. 208 As when some courser..Prances o'er the plain in joy of heart.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 111 A turkey prancing low on earth.

1992 Financial Sunday Express (New Delhi) 13 Sept. 13/4 These beautiful beasts with their tossing manes prance around keeping everyone's attention occupied.

b. transitive. To cause (a horse) to prance. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > cause to prance

prance1530

jaunt1570

jaunce1597

curvetc1600

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 664/1 I praunce an horse, I make hym fetche gamboldes and to flynge, je pourbondys.

1609 R. Hakluyt tr. Virginia richly Valued xvii. 71 He and those that went with him coursed their horses, pransing them to and fro.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pourbondir,..to manage, or praunce a horse; to make him leape, or bound.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 119 He was provoked to see Briançon vault and praunce his Horse about the Field, as if he were certain of his Conquest.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. viii. 209 The marquis of Hartley and lord Barton..pranced their nags, each with two grooms behind them, close up to the landau.

1927 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 July The young diplomat pranced his horse toward her in the Bois.

1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) ii. ii. 14 Gay cowboys from the Reno Gay Rodeo pranced their horses down Market Street.

†4. transitive. To drive or frighten into a specified state by prancing. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 4 May 281/1 Who thinks he has nothing to do but to put on a laced jacket and go prancing his enemies into a fit.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prance
释义	prancen. Brit. /prɑːns/, /prans/, U.S. /præns/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prance v. Etymology: < prance v. 1. The action of prancing; an instance of this; a movement or attitude suggestive of prancing. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stately or affected cock pace1569 stalk1590 ambling1597 amble1607 strut1607 jetting1609 prance1648 grand pas1651 strutting1656 jet1686 to have a roll on1881 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > capering > a caper gambol1509 gamond?a1513 frisco?1520 frisk1525 friscal1570 caprettie?1578 career1587 stotc1590 lavoltaa1592 caper1592 gambado1618 prance1648 capriccio1665 gambade1803 caper-cut1875 1648 H. Aldis Spie sent out of Tower-chamber sig. B1 The horsemens clatt'ring Armes, or horses Prances, Our Thundrings, Blundrings, Plundrings every day, I fear have scar'd him from us quite away. 1693 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 87 On Easter morn his prance Is o're. 1702 R. Steele Funeral iii. 44 The high Prance of the Horses, and the Brisk Insolence of the Servants in an Equipage of Quality, are Inimitable. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 182. ⁋11 A lady..whom by the jolting prance of her gait,..he guessed to have lately buried some prosperous citizen. 1783 C. Macklin True-born Irishman i. 26 When beauteous Diggerty leads up the dance In fair Britannia's court, Then ev'ry heart is in a prance, And longs for Cupid's sport. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 171 Onward these myriads—with song and dance, With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians' prance. 1835 T. S. Fay Leslie I. xiii. 96 He took every opportunity to display his fine person to advantage, and kept his horse in a continual prance. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xii. 161 Ethelberta..swept along the pavement and down the street in a turbulent prance. 1904 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant 243 I'm..as full of prance as a spotted circus horse. 1927 Blackwell's Mag. Oct. 536/1 Truly it was just ‘prance’, and..it was far from being the only piece of prancing to be met with in Digby's life. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. vii. 401 You can also make out Mr. Ward and Mrs. French in a bruegelish kimbo (peasant prance) at the farther end of the hall. 2005 Hindu (Nexis) 10 Nov. The yelp was replaced by a whine. The prance gave way to a limp. †2. A trip, a jaunt. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ ?1796 C. Dibdin Mounseer Nong Tong Paw 3 John Bull for pastime took a prance Some time ago, to peep at France. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prancev. Brit. /prɑːns/, /prans/, U.S. /præns/ Forms: Middle English–1500s praunse, Middle English–1500s prawnce, Middle English–1700s praunce, Middle English–1800s pranse, Middle English– prance, 1500s prauncheth (3rd singular present indicative, perhaps transmission error), 1800s– pronse (English regional (Yorkshire)). Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.The phonology and spelling of praunse , pranse , praunce , prance suggest a French origin, but no plausible French etymon has been identified. Compare prank v.¹, which corresponds closely in sense. Perhaps (in spite of its earlier attestation) an alteration of prank v.¹ by association with dance v. Perhaps compare oliprance n. Alternatively, perhaps compare Danish regional (North Jutland) pranse, prunse, (Danish Isles) prynse to go in a stately, proud fashion, and the related adjective prans, prons spirited, proud, although the resemblance may be coincidental. Similarly, perhaps compare also Middle High German spranz strutting, early modern German spranzen to strut (now German regional (south-western)). Apparently attested earlier as a surname: William Praunce (1318). 1. a. intransitive. To dance, gambol, caper. Now frequently with adverbial complement. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper leapc900 playOE floxec1200 startlec1300 trancec1374 prancec1380 tripc1386 scoupa1400 prankc1450 gambol1508 frisk?1520 jeta1529 pract1568 trounce1568 trip1578 capriole1580 lavolta1590 linch1593 curvet1595 flisk1595 firk1596 caper1598 jaunce1599 risec1599 cabre1600 jaunt1605 skit1611 to cut a caper or capersa1616 tripudiate1623 insult1652 to fike and flinga1689 scamper1691 dance1712 pranklea1717 cavort1794 jinket1823 gambado1827 caracol1861 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 5341 (MED) Þe Ameral..prauncede & blew as he were wod, & miȝt noȝt speke for his heȝe mod. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 69^v Whanne þe modir wasschiþ & kembiþ hem [sc. children], þey kyken & praunsen & putte with feet & hondis. c1450 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 307 (MED) Tho Jak and yc wenten to bedde; He prikede, and he pransede; nolde he neuer lynne. c1475 Mankind (1969) 91 (MED) Yf ȝe wyll, ser, my brother wyll make yow to prawnce. 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 398 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 293 And so thay wend thay weill dansit And did bot practit and pransit. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew i. sig. C3^v Strike up Piper a merry dance That we on our stampers may foot it and prance. 1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 22 With Pride to prance; And (rightly manag'd) equal time to beat. 1790 D. Morison Poems 47 He tunes his win'some reed, The wee things loup and prance. 1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 93 Whilst they touzle, ramp, and prance, The carles took their gill. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxvi. 315 Two or more figures in uncouth masks..prance about in the circle to the sound of music. 1939 M. Dickens One Pair of Hands x. 169 I feel more like goin' to bed and sleeping for a week than prancing round the ballroom. 1988 R. Christiansen Romantic Affinities iii. 133 When their captor was absent..those left behind would, out of sheer relief, prance around giggling like schoolchildren. b. intransitive. To move, walk, or behave in an ostentatious or arrogant manner; to swagger; to flounce. Frequently with adverbial complement. †Also transitive with it (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] > move or walk ostentatiously trail1303 jeta1400 prancec1422 prankc1450 brank1568 promenade1699 parade1748 sashay1968 c1422 T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.) l. 824 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 139 A tale eek which I in the Romayn deedis Now late sy..Thogh I nat shapen be to prike or prance,—Wole I translate. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3400 (MED) They stond in altircacioune & stryff in poynt to praunce To depart yeur goodis. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. v. 8 Ilk ane of thaim, furth pransand lyke a lard. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/2 To Praunce, exultare. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. i. 24 How well resembles it the prime of Youth, Trimm'd like a Yonker, prauncing to his Loue? View more context for this quotation c1641 Downfall of Pretended Div. Authoritie of Hierarchy 11 How they pierck and pranse it, above all Nobilitie and Gentry. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. x. 57 She bid the servant tell Lord G. that she desired his company. Lord G. was [= had] pranced out. a1784 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1816) II. 68 (note) Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ-Church and All-Souls. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xvi. 138 Rawdon..pranced off to engage the lodgings with all the impetuosity of love. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xx. 194 The duke got out his book and read the parts over in the most splendid spread-eagle way, prancing around and acting at the same time. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 151 An elderly aunt..had put ten years' taxes with a lawyer and pranced off to Honolulu. 1999 S. Stewart Sharking xiv. 241 Tonty, who always taught in tight leather trousers, spent class prancing spitefully around insulting everyone. 2. intransitive. Of a person: to ride a prancing horse; to ride proudly or ostentatiously. †Also transitive with it (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride prancingly or ostentatiously prancea1393 prankc1450 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1191 Wherof this man was wonder glad, And goth to prike and prance aboute. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 16102 (MED) Thei of Grece saw hem [sc. Amazons] com out So proudely praunsande & so stout. c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 11 A prety propchaunt ye be for the nones And lustely ye praunsen whan ye ryde. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xiii. 4 Camylla..apon hyr foyn Prowdly pransys lyke a wench Amazon. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxiij^v Then vp pranced the Burgonyons and folowed the chace. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. i. 351 So make him my white jennet when I prance it After the Black Knight's litter. 1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk ii. 69 Those two that there beride him, And with such Graces Prance beside him. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 367 Like Troops of Amazons, the Female Band Prance round their Cars. 1803 T. Campbell Poems 1 Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Rose & Ring xvii His Majesty prancing in person at the head of them all. 1938 Open Road for Boys July 19/1 The judges were prancing up and down the arena on horses that were the pride of individual outfits. 3. a. intransitive. Of an animal, esp. a horse: to rise by springing from the hind legs; to move by a succession of such springs. †Also transitive, with allusion to sense 1a (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > in stately or affected manner prancea1398 jeta1400 prankc1450 strut1518 stalk1530 jotc1560 brank1568 piaffe1593 strit1597 swagger1600 stretch1619 prig1623 flutter1690 prink1696 jut1763 strunt1789 straddle1802 major1814 cakewalk1890 sashay1968 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > leap or prance tripc1386 prancea1398 brank?1400 leapc1405 gambol?1507 curvet1584 jet1587 jaunt1605 scope1607 stilt1786 caracol1813 prank1842 cavort1843–4 tittup1862 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 264^v Wheþer he [sc. a lamb] is y-ladde to pasture or to deþ, he gruccheþ nouȝt nouþer praunseþ [L. calcitrat] not. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2064 (MED) Gryngolet..startez on þe ston; stod he no lenger to praunce. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 221 Though I praunce al byforn, First in the trays, ful fat and newe shorn, Yet am I but an hors. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 344 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 553 (MED) The Goos may gagle, the Hors may prike & praunce. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Cc.iiii A Lion saw... He praunced before, still seking for a make. c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas i. in Wks. (1898) I. 783 Whil Phoebus' steeds abowt the Poles do praunce. 1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 26 Till the Suns Car-horses stand prancing on the very top of highest Noon. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 341 I have a little white favourite [horse]... He prances under me with so much fire. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1852) II. 445 The complete horseman..may let him sometimes prance and caper and curvet. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxiii. 44 Their chargers featly prance. 1858 W. Morris Eve of Crecy in Poems 168 Look you, my horse is good to prance A right fair measure in this war-dance. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vi. 208 As when some courser..Prances o'er the plain in joy of heart. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 111 A turkey prancing low on earth. 1992 Financial Sunday Express (New Delhi) 13 Sept. 13/4 These beautiful beasts with their tossing manes prance around keeping everyone's attention occupied. b. transitive. To cause (a horse) to prance. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > cause to prance prance1530 jaunt1570 jaunce1597 curvetc1600 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 664/1 I praunce an horse, I make hym fetche gamboldes and to flynge, je pourbondys. 1609 R. Hakluyt tr. Virginia richly Valued xvii. 71 He and those that went with him coursed their horses, pransing them to and fro. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pourbondir,..to manage, or praunce a horse; to make him leape, or bound. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 119 He was provoked to see Briançon vault and praunce his Horse about the Field, as if he were certain of his Conquest. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. viii. 209 The marquis of Hartley and lord Barton..pranced their nags, each with two grooms behind them, close up to the landau. 1927 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 July The young diplomat pranced his horse toward her in the Bois. 1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) ii. ii. 14 Gay cowboys from the Reno Gay Rodeo pranced their horses down Market Street. †4. transitive. To drive or frighten into a specified state by prancing. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 4 May 281/1 Who thinks he has nothing to do but to put on a laced jacket and go prancing his enemies into a fit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648v.c1380
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