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[English lanc (e); -er.] 1. Mil .: A cavalry soldier armed with a lance. Lancers were introduced into European arinies by Napoleon I., after the pattern of those in the Polish service. After the campaign of 1815, four regiments of English lancers were formed from the 9th, 12th, 16th, and 23d Light Dragoons. These are now represented by the 5th, 9th, 12th, 16th, and 17th Cavalry regiments, and are cla ed as the Medium Cavalry. They are armed with lance, sword, and pistol, but it is proposed to add a carbine. They are not good for reconnoitering pur poses, as they are more easily seen than the Light Hu ars, and are also very unsuitable to wooded country; but they are valuable in open country against infantry in disorder. The Uhlans in the German service are armed and used as in England, and are "medium cavalry." *2. Surg .: A lancet. 3. Dancing ( pl .): A certain set of quadrilles. lăn'-çět, *laun-cet, *lawn-cent, *lawn-set, s. [Fr. lancette , dim in. of lance =a lance.] I. Ord. Lang.: In the same sense as II. 3. II. Technically : 1. Arch .: A lancet-window (q. v.). 2. Metal - working : The tapping-bar of a metal furnace. marine; gō, põt, lancet-arch 3. Surg .: A small, sharp, surgical instrument, ased in bleeding, cutting of absce es, tumors, . They are of various shapes and sizes, according to the purposes for which they are intended; as, vaccinating lancets , gum lancets , . Lancets of copper were disinterred in Pompeii in 1819, in the house of a Roman surgeon in the Via Consular is. "Which sends forth its admirable knives, razors, and lancets to the farthest ends of the world."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. iii. IMG:content-0347.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2465 4. Law : Ichthy.: Another name for the Surgeon-fish. [ACANTH URUS.] IMG:content-0348.png:[blocks in formation] lacerate.