noun

• (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• (uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
  "So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?"
• (figurative, dated) Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.
  "He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on."

verb

• (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
  "I danced with her all night long."
• (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
  "His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke. She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it."
• (transitive) To perform the steps to.
  "Have you ever danced the tango?"
• (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
  "Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, or in the beachèd margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport."

noun

• (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
  "The fact appears to have been that Simon de Montacute bore two coats; the one, Argent, three fusils, which it is most probable was a corruption of a fess dancette, or a dance, Gules; and the other, Azure, a griffin segreant[…]"