Launce

Origin 1

See lance.

Full definition of launce

Noun

launce

(plural launces)

(obsolete) A lance.

Origin 2

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

Noun

launce

(plural launces)

(obsolete) A balance.

Fortune all in equal launce doth sway. - Edmund Spenser

Origin 3

Noun

launce

(plural launces)

(zoology) greater sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus

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