morrice
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]morrice (plural morrices)
- A morris dance.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus:
- The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove,
Now to the moon in wavering morrice move;
And on the tawny sands and shelves
Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.
Verb
[edit]morrice (third-person singular simple present morrices, present participle morricing, simple past and past participle morriced)
- To dance, especially a morris dance
- 1861, M. Collins, Temple Bar I, page 268:
- To move away rapidly; to decamp.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
- Zounds! here they are. Morrice! Prance!
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
- Up with you, on your pins. There: now then, Morrice!