transitive verb. 
                    To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
                  
                
                  
                    transitive verb. 
                    To open with a lancet; to pierce.
                  
                
                  
                    transitive verb. 
                    To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    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.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A lancet.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. See also freelance, n. and a., and freelancer.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    same as Lancepesade.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    a lansquenet.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    the fer-de-lance.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odor; -- used in the counter operations of miners.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    to engage in a tilt or contest.