Word Meanings - ELANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.

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• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• LANCEOLATE; LANCEOLATED
  Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
• ELANCE
  To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• LANCEOLAR
  Lanceolate.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• LANCER
  1. One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. Wilhelm. 2. A lancet. 3. pl.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• LANCEGAY; LANCEGAYE
  A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. Nares. In his hand a launcegay, A long sword by his side. Chaucer. (more info) same source as E. assagai, under the influence of F. lance lance. See
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• LANCET
  An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch , a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches
• LANCELY
  Like a lance. Sir P. Sidney.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• LANCE
  A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. (more info) 1. 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
• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• DEMILANCE
  A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• VALANCE
  p. pr. of avaler to go down, let down, descent ; but 1. Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak. 2. The drooping
• MELANCHOLIAN
  A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic. Dr. J. Scott.
• OBLANCEOLATE
  Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• PETULANCE; PETULANCY
  The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the
• MELANCHOLILY
  In a melancholy manner.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.