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Definition of launce

launce
Lant Lant, n. [Cf. Lance.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
Launce
Launce Launce, n. A lance. [Obs.]
Launce
Launce Launce, n. [It. lance, L. lanx, lancis, plate, scale of a balance. Cf. Balance.] A balance. [Obs.] Fortune all in equal launce doth sway. --Spenser.
Launce
Launce Launce, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Lant, the fish.

Meaning of launce from wikipedia

- Launce can refer to: A character in Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona A type of fish, also known as a Sand lance This disambiguation page...
- of people in love. The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing...
- eels", though they are not related to true eels. Another variant name is launce, and all names of the fish are references to its slender body and pointed...
- Discourses: "The dashe of a Pen, is more greeuous than the counterbuse of a Launce." Netizens have suggested that a 1571 edition of Erasmus' Institution of...
- musical Titanic in 1997, and The Tempest in 1995. In 2005, he appeared as Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona as part of the Public Theater's Shakespeare...
- original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2021. "Saudi Arabia launces air attacks in Yemen". The Washington Post. March 25, 2015. Archived from...
- (Arlington, Virginia) production of Chess. In 2011, he pla**** the role of Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona at Shakespeare Theatre Company. He appeared in...
- also to the audience. Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew Launce in Two Gentlemen of VeronaLaunce is simple and pastoral. There is no mention of specific...
- Collected Papers (edited by E.S. Pearson and John Wishart, with a foreword by Launce McMullen), London: Biometrika Office. (1942) Ziliak, Stephen T. (2008)....
- 1608–1611 Anthony Rate 1611–1615 Thomas or Henry Bradley 1615–1621 William Launce 1621–1628 Robert Whittle 1628–1661 William Hide 1661–1668 Thomas Johnson...