lancet

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Your lancet should be adjustable from "not quite sticking you" to "going to the bone".

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  1. noun Medicine A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions. Also called lance.
  2. noun Architecture A lancet arch.
  3. noun Architecture A lancet window.

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  • I heard the grating chink of scissors severing her long grey hair, and as I busied myself with laying and lighting the fire in the hearth, and kindling the oil-stove, which I found, by Horton's directions, in the pantry, I saw that his lancet was busy on the exposed skin. —  Collected Stories
  • When they underwent the operation of the lancet, the doctor's wife and another lady were present; both beautiful women. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • Your lancet should be adjustable from "not quite sticking you" to "going to the bone". —  Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
  • He took out his lancet, and forthwith bled everybody in the Kaëd's caravanseria. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
  • He was very partial to the use of the lancet, and quite a terrible adept at tooth-drawing. —  The Lighthouse
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of lance, lance; see lance.

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  1. from Middle English launcet, lawnset, from Old French lancete, lancette, French lancette, a lancet, little lance (= Spanish Portuguese lanceta, a lancet, = Italian lancetta, a small spear, a lancet), diminutive of lance, a lance: see lance.
 

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