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Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.

Nonresistance; passive submission.

The act of issuing, or giving out; as, the issuance of an order; the issuance of rations, and the like.

Iteration. [Obs.]

Jollity; merriment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness. Spenser. Some days of joyance are decreed to all. Byron. From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow Trench.

; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. A braver soldier never couched lance. Shak.

genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. Nares. In his hand a launcegay, A long sword by his side. Chaucer.

A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus), remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.

Like a lance. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

Lanceolate.

Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.

n assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.

One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. Wilhelm.

An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch (Arch.), a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century. -- Lancet fish. (Zo…

e of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).

Same as Ligeance.

e former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance. [Written also ligeancy and liegance.] Chaucer.

Forbearance to punish or resent.