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Nave Topical Bible
• Lance
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Lance, Lancet
Hastings' BibleDictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Lance, Holy
• Lance and Nails, Feast of the
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Webster Dictionary
• Lancing (2)
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Lance; Lancer; Lancet
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Lance (2)
• Lance, Lucien Charles, D.D.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Holy Lance
Lexicons
• ܪܽܘܡܚܳܐ
• כִּידוֹן
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LANCE, n. L. lancea Gr.

A spear, an offensive weapon in form of a half pike, used by the ancients and thrown by the hand. It consisted of the shaft or handle, the wings and the dart.

LANCE,

1. To pierce with a lance or with a sharp pointed instrument.

- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanc'd her back.

2. To pierce or cut to open with a lancet as, to lance a vein or an abscess.