▪ I. † paunce Obs.
Also 4 paunz, 6 pans, pawnce.
[var. of panche, paunch n.1: cf. pauncer; also, obs. F. pance ‘the paunch..; also the fashion of a great bellied doublet, or the great bellie of a doublet’ (Cotgr.).]
1. = pauncer 1.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10028 Breche of maille, wyþ paunz non liche. [1369 Test. Karleol. (1893) 92 Item lego..Johanni fratri meo unum par de paunce et de braces et j jac.] 1384–5 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 594 In j pauncs, vs. 1411 E.E. Wills (1882) 19 An holle brest⁓plate, a paunce of stele. 1495 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 226 Item, iij quarteris of satyne to lyne his pans. 1541 Ibid. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials l. *317 Twa Pansis of mailȝe. |
2. = pauncer 2.
| a 1500 Medulla in Cath. Angl. 42 note, Renale, a breke gyrdyl or a paunce. |
3. Comb., as paunce-cloth.
| 1552 in Surrey Ch. Goods 16 Item a pawnce cloth of blewe. |
▪ II. paunce
obs. form of pansy n.