demilance, demy lance

Old Armor: 1. A light lance; a half-pike. "On their steeled heads their dem i -lances wore Small pennons, which their ladies' colors bore." Dryden: 1 Conquest of Granada , i. 1. 2. A light horseman armed with a lance; a lancer. "Lancearii. Les lances. The demy lances."- Nomen 1874.) dem i-lune, s. 1. Ord. Lang.: A cresc, nut. "It is an immense ma of stone of the shape of a dem i lune."-North: Life of Lord Guilford , i. 228. 2. Fort .: An outwork of the nature of a ravelin.