launce
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See lance.
Noun[edit]
launce (plural launces)
- Obsolete form of lance.
- sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae
Translations[edit]
sand lance — see sand lance
Verb[edit]
launce (third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance.
Noun[edit]
launce (plural launces)
- (obsolete) A balance.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
- Fortune all in equall launce doth sway.
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
launce (plural launces)
- A lance (long spear).
- A javelin (throwing spear).
- (rare) A lancer; someone armed with a lance.
- (figurative, rare) That which is long and pointed.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “launce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
launce
- Alternative form of launcen (“to push forwards”)
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