Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. Wither.

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

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.

To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind. Shak.

Thy grandsire loved thee well;
Many a time he danced thee on his knee. Shak.

To dance attendance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor.

A man of his place, and so near our favor,
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure. Shak.

* The word dance was used ironically, by the older writers, of many proceedings besides dancing.

Of remedies of love she knew parchance
For of that art she couth the olde dance. Chaucer.

Dance of Death (Art), an allegorical representation of the power of death over all, -- the old, the young, the high, and the low, being led by a dancing skeleton. -- Morris dance. See Morris. -- To lead one a dance, to cause one to go through a series of movements or experiences as if guided by a partner in a dance not understood.