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| lance | 1. 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. "A braver soldier never couched lance." (Shak) 2. A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. 3. A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. 4. An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. 5. <chemistry> One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. Free lance, in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. Lance bucket, a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odour; used in the counter operations of miners. To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest. Origin: OE. Lance, F. Lance, fr. L. Lancea; cf. Gr. Cf. Launch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| lance fish | <zoology> A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast. Synonym: sand lance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Lancefield | Rebecca Craighill, U.S. Bacteriologist, *1895. See: Lancefield classification. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lancefield classification | A serologic classification dividing haemolytic streptococci into groups (A to O) which bear a definite relationship to their sources, based upon precipitation tests depending upon group-specific substances that are carbohydrate in nature; e.g., Group A contains strains pathogenic for man; B, strains from mastitis in cows and from normal milk, including a few strains from the human throat and vagina; C, strains from various lower animals, including a number from cattle; D, strains from cheese; E, strains from certified milk; F, strains mainly from the human throat, associated with tonsillitis; G, strains from man, a few from monkeys and dogs; and H, K, and O, nonpathogenic strains from normal human respiratory tracts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lancelet | <zoology> 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. Origin: Lance + -let. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lanceolar | <botany> Lanceolate. Origin: L. Lanceola a little lance, dim. Of lancea lance: cf. F. Lanceolaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lanceolate | Lancelike, of a leaf, about four times as long as it is broad, broadest in the lower half and tapering towards the tip. (09 Oct 1997) |
| lanceolated | <botany> Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf. Origin: L. Lanceolatus: cf. F. Lanceol. See Lanceolar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lancet | 1. A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc. 2. <chemistry> An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Lancet arch A large, voracious, deep-sea fish (Alepidosaurus ferox), having long, sharp, lancetlike teeth. The doctor, or surgeon fish. Origin: F. Lancette, dim. Of lance lance. See Lance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lancewood | <botany> 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). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fer-de-lance | <zoology> A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle. Origin: F, the iron of a lance, lance head. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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of a leaf shape; shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex
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spear: a long pointed rod used as a weapon move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore" spear: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil" lancet: a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
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lancet arch: an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
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The term lance has become a catchall for a variety of different pole weapons based on the spear. While most could still be classified as spears, lances tend to be larger; usually both longer and heavier lances did not have spear tips that broke off and were adapted for mounted combat. The lance is perhaps most known as one of the foremost weapons used by European knights, but the use of lances were spread throughout the old world wherever mounts were available. ...
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A short pointed blade used to obtain a drop of blood; it has a guard above the blade that prevents a deep incision.
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| lance | a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade |
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| lance | a long pointed rod used as a weapon |
| lance | an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish |
| lance | open by piercing with a lancet, as of a boil |
| lance | pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight |
| lance | move quickly, as if by cutting one's way |
| lance | an enlisted man in the marine corps ranking above a private first class and below a corporal |
| lance | small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal |
| lance | of a leaf shape |
| lance | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table |
| lance | of a leaf shape |
| lance | shaped like a lance head |
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