lancet-window

(lan’set-win’d6),n. A high and narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed or formed of curves of long radius (the center falling outside of the arch), and resembling a lancet in shape. Windows of this form are a marked characteristic of the architecture of the first half of the thirteenth century, and are especially common in England and Scotland. They are often double or triple, and sometimes a greater number than three lancets are found together, as in the group called the Five Sisters in the transept of York cathedral. Often called simply lancet. lancewood (lans’- wud), ». A name of several trees and of their wood. The best-known of the trees is Duguetia quit a rens is, the wood of which is exported from Guiana and indow.— The Five Sister: Cuba. The wood is York Minster, England. tough and elastic, and is used for carriage-shafts, surveyors’ rods, cabinet-work, etc. Itis of alight-yellow color, and resembles boxwood, for which it often pa es, Other lancewoods are Ozandra (Bocage a) virgata of the West Indies and South America, and Kollinia multiflora and R. long i folia. The lancewood of Florida is Nectandra Willdenovit; that of South Africa, Bocage a Cafra; that of Australia, Backhousia australis; and that of New Zealand, Panax (Aralia) cra i folium. The black lancewood of the West Indies is the boraginaceous tree Tour nef ort i a laurifolia. lanch, v.and ». See launch. lanchara, 7. See lantcha. lanciers,. pl. [F.] See lancer, 4.