launce

English

Etymology 1

See lance.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

  1. Obsolete form of lance.

Verb

launce (third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced)

  1. Obsolete form of lance.

Etymology 2

From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

  1. (obsolete) A balance.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Edmund Spenser
      Fortune all in equal launce doth sway.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

  1. sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae

Translations
sand lance — see sand lance

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