launce

Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

launce(n = noun.animal) sand eel, sand lance, sand launce - very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches; Array

is a kind of acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish

is a member of ammodytes, genus ammodytes

launce, n.

A lance. [1913 Webster]

launce, n. [It. lance, L. lanx, lancis, plate, scale of a balance. Cf. Balance.].

A balance. [1913 Webster]

"Fortune all in equal launce doth sway." [1913 Webster]

launce, n.

See Lant, the fish. [1913 Webster]

launce, n. a sand eel.

Etymology

perh. f. LANCE: cf. garfish

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