Lance
[lɑːns] or [læns]
Definition
(verb.) open by piercing with a lancet; 'lance a boil'.
(verb.) pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight.
(verb.) move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; 'Planes lanced towards the shore'.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
(n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
(n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
(n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
(v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
(v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
(v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spear, javelin.
v. a. [1]. Hurl, throw, launch, dart, send, fling, toss, pitch, jaculate, let fly.[2]. Pierce, cut with a lancet.
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Definition
n. (Spens.) balance poise.
n. a long shaft of wood with a spear-head and bearing a small flag: the bearer of a lance.—v.t. to pierce with a lance: to open with a lancet.—ns. Lance′-cor′poral a private soldier doing the duties of a corporal; Lance′let (see Amphioxus); Lan′cer a light cavalry soldier armed with a lance: (pl.) a popular set of quadrilles first in England about 1820: the music for such; Lance′-wood a wood valuable for its strength and elasticity brought chiefly from Jamaica Guiana &c.—adjs. Lancif′erous bearing a lance; Lan′ciform lance-shaped.
Typist: Virginia
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a lance, denotes formidable enemies and injurious experiments. To be wounded by a lance, error of judgment will cause you annoyance. To break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome and your desires will be fulfilled.
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Examples
- Hear me, Rebecca--Never did knight take lance in his hand with a heart more devoted to the lady of his love than Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Whose good lance, replied the robber, won the prize in to-day's tourney? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But they will be empty--no one will risk to break a lance for the innocent, the forlorn. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I saw your brave lance, Bois-Guilbert, roll thrice over, grasping his hands full of sand at every turn. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is true, I gave a little ground at first, for a motley jacket does not brook lance-heads, as a steel doublet will. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-Boeuf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It needs not--send Louis Winkelbrand and a score of thy lances. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--Love of ladies, splintering of lances! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It were deep pity, said Conrade Mont-Fitchet, to lose to the Order one of its best lances, when the Holy Community most requires the aid of its sons. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It becoming necessary, upon this, to send him to bed again and hold him in waiting to be lanced again, Bella did it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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