different between launce vs vaunce

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /l??ns/, /l??ns/

Etymology 1

See lance.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

1. Obsolete form of lance.
2. sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae

Translations

Verb

launce (third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced)

1. Obsolete form of lance.

Etymology 2

From Italian lance, Latin lanx, lancis (“plate, scale of a balance”); compare balance.

Noun

launce (plural launces)

1. (obsolete) A balance.

Anagrams

• Lucena, auncel, auncle, cuneal, lacune, unlace

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

Alternative forms

• lance, launs, launse, lawnce, lawnse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lau?ns(?)/, /?lans(?)/

Noun

launce (plural launces)

1. A lance (long spear).
2. A javelin (throwing spear).
3. (rare) A lancer; someone armed with a lance.
4. (figuratively, rare) That which is long and pointed.

Related terms

• launcele
• launcen
• launcet
• launcegay

Descendants

• English: lance, launce
• Scots: lance

References

• “launce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

launce

1. Alternative form of launcen (“to push forwards”)

English

Etymology

See advance.

Verb

vaunce (third-person singular simple present vaunces, present participle vauncing, simple past and past participle vaunced)

1. (obsolete) To advance.