"dancen" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English dauncen",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English dauncen, equivalent to dance + -en.",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1561, The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly",
          "text": "Holly and his merry men, they dancen and they sing;\nIvy and her maidens, they weepen and they wring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender",
          "text": "Whereto they dauncen eche one with his mayd.",
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          "ref": "1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclogue I. Amyntas.",
          "text": "Here to my pipe they dancen on a row:",
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        "plural simple present of dance"
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        "(obsolete) plural simple present of dance"
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  "word": "dancen"
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      "expansion": "Middle English dauncen",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English dauncen, equivalent to dance + -en.",
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          "ref": "a. 1561, The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly",
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          "ref": "1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender",
          "text": "Whereto they dauncen eche one with his mayd.",
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          "ref": "1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclogue I. Amyntas.",
          "text": "Here to my pipe they dancen on a row:",
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        "plural simple present of dance"
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        "(obsolete) plural simple present of dance"
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