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launce en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

/lɔːns/
(Southern-England) audio
/lɑːns/

Etymology

See lance.

Meanings

(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of lance.
alt of lance
sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
launces	Number=Plur		lexicographic

launce en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

/lɔːns/
(Southern-England) audio
/lɑːns/

Etymology

See lance.

Meanings

(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of lance.
alt of lance

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
launcing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
launced	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
launced	Tense=Past		lexicographic
launces	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic

launce en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

/lɔːns/
(Southern-England) audio
/lɑːns/

Etymology

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

Meanings

(obsolete) A balance.
- Fortune all in equall launce doth sway. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
launces	Number=Plur		lexicographic