launce

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɑːns/, /lɔːns/ Rhymes: -ɑːns, -ɔːns === Etymology 1 === See lance. ==== Noun ==== launce (plural launces) Obsolete form of lance. sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== launce (third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced) Obsolete form of lance. === Etymology 2 === From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance. ==== Noun ==== launce (plural launces) (obsolete) A balance. === Anagrams === Lucena, auncel, auncle, cuneal, lacune, unlace == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old French lance, from Latin lancea. ==== Alternative forms ==== lance, launs, launse, lawnce, lawnse ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈlau̯ns(ə)/, /ˈlans(ə)/ ==== Noun ==== launce (plural launces) A lance (long spear). A javelin (throwing spear). (rare) A lancer; someone armed with a lance. (figurative, rare) That which is long and pointed. ===== Related terms ===== launceǒur launcele launcen launcet launcegay ===== Descendants ===== English: lance, launce Scots: lance ===== References ===== “launce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== launce alternative form of launcen (“to push forwards”)