lance fish

An English marine fish, the sand. lance, Ammodytes tobianus; the name is also applied to other members of the genus Ammodytes. *lance-gay, *lance-gaye, *lance-de-gay, s. A kind of lance. IMG:content-0346.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: The genus Bothrops. It belongs to the family Crotal ide, and contains the Yellow Viper, or Rat-tailed Serpent of the West Indies ( Bothrops lanceolatus ), B. atrox , . All are American. lançe, *launce, *lawn-cyn, v. t. & i. [LANCE, 8.] A. Transitive: 1. To pierce; to cut as with a lance. " Launsing his side full pitously alas." Chaucer: Lamentation of Mary Magdalen. 2. To cut as a surgeon; to open with a lancet. "The surgeon launceth and cutteth out the dead flesh." -Tyndall: Workes , p. 119. 3. To pierce; to cut mentally. "When every letter lanced her like a dart." Drayton: Barons' Wars, bk. vi. 4. To throw as a lance; to launch; to hurl. "And with that word, with all his force a dart He launced then into that croked wombe." *B. In trans.: To spring. Surrey: Virgile ; Æneis ii. "Plomes and cherries That lyghtliche launceth up litel while dureth." Piers Plowman , p. 213.