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Danced

Dance \Dance\ (d[.a]ns), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Danced; p. pr. & vb. n. Dancing.] [F. danser, fr. OHG. dans[=o]n to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, Goth. apinsan, and prob. from the same root (meaning to stretch) as E. thin. See Thin.]

  1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

    Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
    --Wither.

    Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your daughter?
    --Shak.

  2. To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

    Then, 'tis time to dance off.
    --Thackeray.

    More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw.
    --Shak.

    Shadows in the glassy waters dance.
    --Byron.

    Where rivulets dance their wayward round.
    --Wordsworth.

    To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.

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danced

vb. (en-past of: dance)

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Danced

"Danced (Live)" is the fifth UK single from the post-punk band Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox. Their first and only live single, it was released at the end of 1980.

All tracks from the single were recorded by ATV, for inclusion in a television documentary, and most of this concert found its way onto the album Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! that month, including "Danced". The two B-sides from the single, however, were left off the album and for years were only available here. They were later included on the 2005 compilation album The Safari Singles Collection Part 1: 1979-1981, and on the 2006 re-issue of Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!.

Usage examples of "danced".

On the perimeter of the figure and moving round it, danced the Old Guiser, William Andersen.

She found that, after the Guiser had acted out his mock decapitation, the Sons danced again and the Betty and Hobby-Horse improvised.

But always the Sons danced again and, at a fixed point, the Guiser rose up as if resurrected.

Her shallow dreams were beset with dead dogs that stood watchfully between herself and Ralph or horridly danced with bells strapped to their rigid legs.

They danced without flourish but with the sort of concentration that amounts to style.

One of the remaining Sons now came forward and danced a short formal solo with great exactness and spirit.

Would you swear that it was in fact the Guiser who danced the role of Fool?

It seemed to Alleyn she was still so young that her spirit danced away from any but the most immediate and direct shock.

Even Ernie danced with concentration, though he continually threw glances of positive hatred at the Fool.

Camilla, who looked on with a rising sensation of nausea, it seemed as if the Five Sons now danced on a crescendo that thudded like a quickening pulse towards its climax.

Being there was a little like being inside a stupendous honeycomb made of dozens of transparent globes, with a large spherical clearing at the center, in which danced two or three dozen small table-spheres, fuzzy with Velcro.

I smashed them into globular fragments that danced and eddied in the air like little transparent Fireflies before breaking apart and whirling away.

She danced only with body and muscles, moving three-dimensionally in place, with her unmistakable fluidity and precision of line.

As they danced, the lens filled out, became a sphere, which slowly contracted in on them, thickening and darkening as it came.

The music swelled and soared with them as they danced, spilling trills in all directions to match their thruster spray.