Word Finder - lance

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A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

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A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.

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A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

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A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.

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An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

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(founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

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One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.

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A lancet.

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To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.

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Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.

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To open with a lancet; to pierce

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to lance a vein or an abscess

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To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

He peddled off like Lance Armstrong.

Note the wooden castle on a mound, and the knight handing over the keys on his lance tip.

The true Baggara tribesmen employ oxen as saddle and pack animals, carry no shield, and though many possess firearms the customary weapons are lance and sword.

With the discovery of the Lance, which became as it were a Provençal asset, Count Raymund assumes a new importance.

Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hill, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

Firdousi accepted the challenge, and the three poets having previously agreed upon three rhyming words to which a fourth could not be found in the Persian language, 'Ansari began "Thy beauty eclipses the light of the sun"; Farrakhi added "The rose with thy cheek would comparison shun"; 'Asjadi continued "Thy glances pierce through the mailed warrior's johsun"; 1 and Firdousi, without a moment's hesitation, completed the quatrain "Like the lance of fierce Giv in his fight with Poshun."

She had often an acute pain in her side, and fancied that an angel came to her with a lance tipped with fire, which he struck into her heart.

It has lance shaped leaves around 3 " long.

The cavalry weapons are a straight sword (that of the heavy cavalry is illustrated in the article SWORD), a bamboo lance and the Lebel carbine.

The usual attributes of Athena were the helmet, the aegis, the round shield with the head of Medusa in the centre, the lance, an olive branch, the owl, the cock and the snake.

So far, however, energy and Successes v i g i lance made them successful.

Hunting Weapons.The forked lance of flint was at first wide with stTght hollow (73) from S.D.

In works of contemporary art Averroes is at one time the comrade of Mahomet and Antichrist; at another he lies with Arius and Sabellius, vanquished by the lance of St Thomas.

A target was erected and the Page would mount a wooden ' horse ' on wheels holding a lance.

He used a lance that had a devastating effect in a forward direction.

Cathy spoke about her life as a free lance.

This Bio Green Water Wand is a heavy duty spray lance designed to let you water hard to reach areas with ease and accuracy.

I think the best option would be a steam lance.

The little satyrs have stolen his lance - a joke to show that he is now disarmed.

The three lance shaped outer sepals are a soft green.

Use a foam lance to cover all surfaces with foam, scrub walls and floor to remove stubborn soiling.

Although, in general, he adhered to the evolution theory, he was a free lance in thought.

He gives an ecclesiastic's account of the First Crusade, and is specially full on the spiritualistic phenomena which accompanied and followed the finding of the Holy Lance.

They had, besides, the lance, the club, sometimes studded with pebbles, and the javelin, and they seem to have known the shield.

Linguet, however, continued his career of free lance, now attacking and now supporting the government, in the Annales politiques, civiles et litteraires, published from 1777 to 1792, first at London, then at Brussels and finally at Paris.

The ophidians are also very numerous, ranging from the comparatively harmless boa-constrictor to the deadly " palanca " or " fer de lance " (Lachesis lanceolatus) and rattlesnake (Crotalus), of which there are several species.

Alvaro too was a master of all the accomplishments the king admired - a fine horseman, a skilful lance and a writer of court verse.

Its antiquity is attested by the symbol and formula used in its procedure, the lance (hasta) as the sign of true ownership, the oath or wager (sacramentum), the ancient formula for recovery of property or assertion of liberty.

The people of the district to which the candidate belonged were called together; his qualifications for the privileges about to be conferred upon him were inquired into; and, if he were deemed fitted and worthy to receive them, his chief, his father, or one of his near kinsmen presented him with a shield and a lance.

All three flags were of such a size as to be conveniently attached to and carried on a lance, and were emblazoned with the arms or some portion of the bearings of their owners.

The manners and sentiments of the 15th century are made to harmonize with the classical legends after the fashion of the Italian pre-Raphaelite painters, who equipped Jewish warriors with knightly lance and armour.

Troopers are armed with lance, sword and carbine (for which in 1908 the substitution of a short rifle with bayonet was suggested).

The armament of the infantry is Martini-Henry rifle and bayonet; of the cavalry, lance, sword and carbine.

The Scottish centre fought like Paladin's, and James, breaking out in their front, hewed his way to within a lance's length of Surrey, as that leader himself avers.

In a charge the infantry also might employ lance and dagger; but the essential point was that the archers should be mobile and their use of the bow unhampered.

As Apollo Agyieus he was shown by a simple conic pillar; the Apollo of Amyclae was a pillar of bronze surmounted by a helmeted head, with extended arms carrying lance and bow.

At times this monster is also depicted lying vanquished at his feet, and occasionally the monster with the lance or the lance alone is reproduced instead of the god himself.

They grow in the upper axils of the linear or lance shaped, deep green arching leaves.

Lance Sergeant Jason Sumner, of the 1st battalion Scots Guards, played the lament Flowers of the Forest.

Carlist officers were armed with lance like the troopers.

Ryan is a Lance Corporal in the Slough Company of the Boys Brigade and he is a keen cook.

Amy shows Lance the joys of whipped cream, a rather steamy situation.

The flowering stem has twisted, lance shaped leaves arranged in a spiral or scattered around the stem.

The accident kills the son of the local storekeeper (Lance Henriksen ).

As pope, he addressed a fruitless summons to Christendom to unite in a crusade against the infidels, and concluded in 1489 a treaty with Bayezid II., agreeing in consideration of an annual payment of 40,000 ducats and the gift of the Holy Lance, to detain the sultan's fugitive brother Jem in close confinement in the Vatican.

With the discovery of the Lance, which became as it were a Provençal asset, Count Raymund assumes a new importance.

It was during the siege of Arca that Peter Bartholomew, to whom the vision of the Holy Lance had first appeared, was subjected, with no definite result, to the ordeal of fire - the hard-headed Normans doubting the genuine character of any Provencal vision, the more when, as in this case, it turned to the political advantage of the Provencals.

The refusal of Raymund meant the choice of Godfrey of Bouillon, who had, as we have seen, become prominent since the siege of Arca; and Godfrey accordingly became - not king, but "advocate of the Holy Sepulchre," while a few days afterwards Arnulf, the chaplain of Robert of Normandy, and one of the sceptics in the matter of the Holy Lance, became "vicar" of the vacant patriarchate.

In a third version, that of Diu Crone, a long and confused romance, the origin of which has not been determined, the Grail appears as a reliquary, in which the Host is presented to the king, who once a year partakes alike of it and of the blood which flows from the lance.

Raymond Lully, in a dialogue with an infidel thinker, broke a lance in support of the orthodox doctrine, and carried on a crusade against the Arabians in every university; and a disciple of Thomas Aquinas drew up a list (De erroribus philosophorum) of the several delusions and errors of each of the thinkers from Kindi to Averroes.