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. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.

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 braver soldier never couched lance. Shak.

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

r 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.

An 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…

A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).…

To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch. See Whose arm can lanch the surer bolt. Dryden & Lee.

Bearing a lance.

Having the form of a lance.

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

A tearing; laceration. "Lancinations of the spirit." Jer. Taylor.

Urine. See Lant. [Obs.]