adj. (old).—In liquor. [From HANCE = ‘to elevate.’] For synonyms, see DRINKS and SCREWED.

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  1630.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, ‘Taylors Travels,’ 78. I doe finde my selfe sufficiently HANCED, and that henceforth I shall acknowledge it; and that whensoever I shall offer to bee HANCED againe, I shall arme my selfe with the craft of a fox, the manners of a hogge, the wisdom of an asse, mixt with the civility of a beare.

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