trance

noun

1. (countable)A dazed or unconscious condition.
2. (countable)A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).

   “And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.”

   “My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.”

3. (countable)A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
5. (dialectal)A tedious journey.

   “So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire, and into the auld oak parlour; […]”

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.

   “And there I left him tranced.”

2. (rare, transitive)To create in or via a trance.

   “The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]”

   “What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]”

3. (dialectal, intransitive)To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
4. (dialectal, intransitive)To pass across or over; to traverse.

   “Trance the world o'er.”

   “After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.”

5. (dialectal, intransitive)To travel quickly over a long distance.

name

1. (derogatory, offensive)France.