The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obeisance \O*bei"sance\, n. [F. ob['e]issance obedience, fr.
   ob['e]issant. See Obey, and cf. Obedience, Abaisance.]
   1. Obedience. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   2. Deference or homage, or an expression of deference or
      respect; a bow; a curtsy.
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            Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. --1
                                                  Kings i. 16.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

obeisance
    n 1: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or
         submission or shame or greeting [syn: bow, bowing,
         obeisance]
    2: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with
       respect to another person [syn: obedience, obeisance]
       [ant: disobedience, noncompliance]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "obeisance":
   acceptance, acquiescence, allegiance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing,
   assent, backscratching, bend, bending the knee, bob, bootlicking,
   bow, bowing and scraping, brown-nosing, complaisance, compliance,
   consent, cringing, crouch, curtsy, deference, dipping the colors,
   duck, fawnery, fawning, fealty, flunkyism, footlicking,
   genuflection, groveling, handshaking, homage, honor, inclination,
   ingratiation, insinuation, kneeling, kowtow, loyalty, making a leg,
   mealymouthedness, nod, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance,
   obedience, obsequiousness, parasitism, passiveness, passivity,
   presenting arms, prostration, resignation, resignedness, respect,
   respectfulness, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, scrape,
   servility, sponging, squat, standing at attention, stoop,
   subjection, submission, submissiveness, submittal, supination,
   supineness, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying,
   toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, yielding



Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Obeisance
   homage or reverence to any one (Gen. 37:7; 43:28).