Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
lance . - noun See
lance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A balance.
- noun obsolete A lance.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
lant , the fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
balance . - noun obsolete A
lance . - noun zoology greater sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I take it you don't remember OS 9 (or 8), or the lovely launch of Leopard (the GM going to devs one week before launce).
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I take it you don't remember OS 9 (or 8), or the lovely launch of Leopard (the GM going to devs one week before launce).
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Thei cannot handle a target: nor but fewe of theim a launce or a long sweard.
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Hereupon when a great company of such gentlewomen ride together, and are beheld a far off, they seem to be souldiers with helmets on their heads carrying their launces vpright: for the said Botta appeareth like an helmet with a launce ouer it.
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Some of them vpon the necke of their launce haue an hooke, wherewithall they attempt to pull men out of their saddles.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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The Arabiens vse in their warres swerde, bowe, launce, slinge, and battle ax.
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Some of them vpon the necke of their launce haue an hooke, wherewithall they attempt to pull men out of their saddles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hereupon when a great company of such gentlewomen ride together, and are beheld a far off, they seem to be souldiers with helmets on their heads carrying their launces vpright: for the said Botta appeareth like an helmet with a launce ouer it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ah! swythenn [34] mie shielde & tyltynge launce bee bounde [35].
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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When the dyre clatterynge of the shielde and launce
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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