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.

Etymology 3

Noun

launce (plural launces)

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

Translations
sand lance — see sand lance

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