adv., prop. phrase. [A prep.1 + DANCE.] Dancing.

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1869.  Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxviii. (1879), 160. With hope on every beam adance to the laughter of the morning.

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1870.  Lowell, Study Wind. (1871), 238. You cannot … prevent Béranger from setting all pulses a-dance.

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