(n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
(n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
(n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
(n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
(n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
(v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
(v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
(v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
(2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
(3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
(4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
(5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
(6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
(7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
(8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
(9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
(10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
(11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
(14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
(15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
(16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
(17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
(18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
(20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.
Rance
Definition:
(n.) A prop or shore.
(n.) A round between the legs of a chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the generations of Americans had made significant strides toward rance tolerance, but added: "It doesn't mean we're in a post-racial society.
(2) The scheme is billed as a world first, but a similar – though different – tidal scheme has operated for 45 years at La Rance in north-western France.
(3) With AEDANS-G-actin, the initial formation of a ternary G2S complex between two G-actin and one S1 molecules (Valentin-Ranc, C., Combeau, C., Carlier, M. F., and Pantaloni, D. (1991) J. Biol.
(4) Greater than 98% of the 1H resonances, including spin systems for each amino acid residue, have been identified by using an approach that integrates data from a wide range of two-dimensional scalar correlated NMR experiments [Chazin, Rance, & Wright (1988) J. Mol.
(5) Trina Rance, retail operations manager of Dawsons music shop, Piccadilly, Manchester.
(6) Some differences did exist, especially regarding use of antiseptic solutions for cleansing nipples, use of herbal teas for treatment of engorgement and the concern of "over nurtu-rance" due to China's One-Child Policy.
(7) Seymour Alexander, Craig Berman, Rica Bird, Prof Haim Bresheeth, James Cohen, Mike Cushman, Deborah Fink, Kenny Fryde, Carolyn Gelenter, Michael Gold, Tony Greenstein, Abe Hayeem, Selma James, Michael Kalmanovitz, Paul Kaufman, Rachel Lever, Dr Les Lewidow, Susanne Levin, Prof emeritus Moshe Machover, Miriam Margolyes, Diana Neslen, Roland Rance, Frances Rifkin, Sheila Robin, Prof emeritus Steven Rose, Prof emeritus Jonathan Rosenhead, Leon Rosselson, Michael Sackin, Miriam Scharf, Ruth Tenne, Stanley Walinets, Sam Weinstein, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi • Robert Booth reports ( 20 January ) that “UK Jews are braced for the worst” in an extensive article filled with antisemitic incidents, reported jihadist plots and suitcases packed to leave Britain.