lance : Idioms & Phrases

• a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.

Webster 1913

• noun large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America
  Bothrops atrops.
  

WordNet

Fer`-de-lance" noun

Etymology

F., the iron of a lance, lance head.

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus now Bothrops atrox) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle. also in Central America.

Webster 1913

• noun a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
  independent; freelance; freelancer; free lance; self-employed person.
  

WordNet

• 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.

Webster 1913

• noun a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
  independent; freelance; freelancer; free lance; self-employed person.
  
• adjective working for yourself
  freelance; self-employed.
  
• adjective satellite serving for wages in a foreign army
  mercenary; freelance.
  
  • mercenary killers

WordNet

• (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.

Webster 1913

• noun an enlisted man in the marine corps ranking above a private first class and below a corporal
  

WordNet

• same as Lancepesade.

Webster 1913

Lance" fish`

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

Webster 1913

• a lansquenet. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite shaped like a lance
  

WordNet

• noun very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
  launce; sand eel; sand launce.
  

WordNet

• (Mil.), a kind of fuse filled with a composition which burns with a suffocating odor; used in the counter operations of miners.

Webster 1913

• to engage in a tilt or contest.

Webster 1913

• to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest.

Webster 1913