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- noun Plural form of
launce .
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Examples
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By "launces" the writer meant what we should now call the lancelet.
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World I. 480 The people of Thracia. .do with Ivie. .garnish the heads of their launces,. .their mourrons also and targuets.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Hereupon when a great company of such gentlewomen ride together, and are beheld a far off, they seem to be souldiers with helmets on their heads carrying their launces vpright: for the said Botta appeareth like an helmet with a launce ouer it.
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Hereupon when a great company of such gentlewomen ride together, and are beheld a far off, they seem to be souldiers with helmets on their heads carrying their launces vpright: for the said Botta appeareth like an helmet with a launce ouer it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In a list of gentry who furnished “launces and light horse” for the defence of the country in 1584, given in the Melbourn Hall MS., we find the name of Edward Dymmock, of Thornton, Gent., put down for “j light horse” for the master at Horncastle, and among those who were summoned for the Sessions there, according to another list, we again find Edward
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Manie of them hauing their torches burning, others pastophorall, some with ancient spoiles vppon the endes of streight staues, and others with diuers sorts of Trophes vpon launces, curiouslie hanging, caried before the mystical triumphs, with shouting resounds aboue in the aire.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Incontinently after, the Harraulde of armes began to make the accustomed crie, and the Knightes to put their launces in their restes: they let run their horses with such violence, as ioyning together their shieldes, their bodies and heads, they brake their staues, euen to their
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Louth Sessions, March, 1586 – 7, Charles Bolles is named as “Captaine,” furnishing “ij. horse”; and Richard Bolles “ij launces” and “ij horse”; while Richard Bowles, which is probably the same name, is mentioned along with Sir Willm.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Hee went up corragiously with some brisk men with him, butt their was provided Mollattas and hunters with their launces which came to oppose him.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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My uncle knew the cliffs, though, and how dangerous they were; he knew men might any time be walking below, digging launces in the sand, or getting lobworms for their lines, or hunting serpentine to polish, or looking for sea-bird's eggs among the half-way ledges.
Michael's Crag Grant Allen 1873
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