Definition of lance

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Lance (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

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Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
Balance :: Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
Scale :: Scale (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively..
Unpoised :: Unpoised (a.) Not poised or balanced.
Look :: Look (n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look..
#NAME? :: -ly (a.) A suffix forming adjectives and adverbs, and denoting likeness or resemblance..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
Waterfall :: Waterfall (n.) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
Even :: Even (a.) Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain..
Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..
Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind..
Piraya :: Piraya (n.) A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth..
Aspect :: Aspect (n.) The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.
Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance..
Ambulance :: Ambulance (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps..
"""glance " :: Glance (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. Your arrow hath glanced..
Barnacle :: Barnacle (sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
Countervote :: Countervote (v. t.) To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.
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