launce

noun — 3 senses

launce

noun

/lɑːns/ · /lɔːns/

Etymology See lance.

1

Obsolete Obsolete form of lance.

2

sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae

launce

noun

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

1

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:

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