Vocabulary : Lampyris to Lancegaye
Lampyris : A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.
Lanarkite : A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.
Lanary : A place for storing wool.
Lanate : Alt. of Lanated
Lanated : Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
Lance : 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. ;; A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer. ;; A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. ;; An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home. ;; One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. ;; To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. ;; To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess. ;; To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
Lance fish : A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.
Lanced : of Lance
Lancegay : Alt. of Lancegaye
Lancegaye : A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
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