| Lance |
n. |
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. |
| Lance |
n. |
A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. |
| Lance |
n. |
A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. |
| Lance |
n. |
An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. |
| Lance |
n. |
One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. |
| Lance |
v. t. |
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. |
| Lance |
v. t. |
To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. |
| Lance |
v. t. |
To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch. |
| Lance fish |
|
A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast;
called also sand lance. |
| Lanced |
imp. & p. p. |
of Lance |
| Lancegay |
n. |
Alt. of Lancegaye |
| Lancegaye |
n. |
A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. |
| Lancelet |
n. |
A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia. |
| Lancely |
a. |
Like a lance. |
| Lanceolar |
a. |
Lanceolate. |
| Lanceolate |
a. |
Alt. of Lanceolated |
| Lanceolated |
a. |
Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf. |
| Lancepesade |
n. |
An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal;
called also lance corporal. |
| Lancer |
n. |
One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. |
| Lancer |
n. |
A lancet. |
| Lancer |
n. |
A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. |
| Lancet |
n. |
A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc. |
| Lancet |
n. |
An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. |
| Lancewood |
n. |
A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae). |
