Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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askance . - See
askance .
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Examples
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Lokeynge ascaunce [45] upon the naighboure greene;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The usual sense of _ascaunce_ in Chaucer, and other old writers, has been explained in a note on ver.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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