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- English Word Lanary Definition A place for storing wool.
- English Word Lanate Definition Alt. of Lanated
- English Word Lanated Definition Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
- English Word Lance Definition A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- English Word Lance Definition A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- English Word Lance Definition A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- English Word Lance Definition An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- English Word Lance Definition One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- English Word Lance Definition To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- English Word Lance Definition To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
- English Word Lance Definition To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
- English Word Lance fish Definition A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.
- English Word Lanced Definition of Lance
- English Word Lancegay Definition Alt. of Lancegaye
- English Word Lancegaye Definition A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
- English Word Lancelet Definition A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
- English Word Lancely Definition Like a lance.
- English Word Lanceolar Definition Lanceolate.
- English Word Lanceolate Definition Alt. of Lanceolated
- English Word Lanceolated Definition Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.