noun. A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.

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noun. A lancet arch.

noun. A lancet window.

noun. In entomology, one of the lower pair of piercing organs in the dipterous mouth; the scalpella: supposed by Kirby and Spence to represent the maxillæ of the haustellate mouth.

noun. A small lance or javelin.

noun. A small surgical instrument, sharp-pointed and generally two-edged, used in bloodletting and in opening tumors, abscesses, etc.

noun. In arch., a lancet-window; an arch of lancet shape.

noun. A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

noun. An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

noun. a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height.

noun. a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century.

noun. A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venisection and for opening abscesses etc.

noun. an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance

noun. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

"The barber carried a piece of rusty hoop instead of a razor, and a pot of grease for lather, while the doctor, with a huge pill box and a knife, which he called his lancet, stood by to prescribe the treatment each patient was to receive."

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