Definition of "launce"

launce¹

/lɑːns/

noun
plural launces
1. Obsolete form of lance.
2. sand eel, sand lance, fish of the family Ammodytidae
verb
third-person singular simple present launces, present participle launcing, simple past and past participle launced
1. Obsolete form of lance.

launce²

/lɑːns/

noun
plural launces
1. (obsolete) A balance.
  Quotations
  Fortune all in equall launce doth sway.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 4