trance

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
2. n. Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
3. n. A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.
4. v. To put into a trance; entrance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A journeying or journey over a country; especially, a tedious journey.
2. n. A passage, especially a passage inside a house.
3. To tramp; travel.
4. n. A passing away or apart; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being; a state of insensibility to mundane things; a rapture; an ecstasy.
5. n. A state of perplexity or bewilderment; amaze.
6. n. In medicine, catalepsy; ecstasy; the hypnotic state.
7. To entrance; place in or as in a trance or rapture.
8. To hold or bind with or as with a charm or spell; overspread or shroud as with a spell; charm; enchant.

Wiktionary

1. n. A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. n. A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
3. n. psychology A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
4. n. psychology The previous state induced by hypnosis.
5. n. uncountable Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
6. v. obsolete To pass; to travel.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Prov. Eng. A tedious journey.
2. n. A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.
3. n. (Med.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
4. v. To entrance.
5. v. Poetic To pass over or across; to traverse.
6. v. obsolete To pass; to travel.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
2. n. a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep
3. v. attract; cause to be enamored