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▪ I. † ˈlancer1 Obs.
Forms: 5 lanceour, 6–7 launcer, 7 lancer.
[ad. OF. lanceor, lanceur, f. lancer to lance, throw, or f. lance v. + -er1.]
One who, or that which lances, in senses of the vb.
1. One who lances or throws (a dart).
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 215 Archeris, abblastres, and Lanceouris of Dartes brandynge.
2. = lancet.
1537Matthew's Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 28 They..cut them selues as their maner was with knyues and launcers [1611 lancers]. 1587L. Mascall Gov. Cattle (1627) 177 Raze him with a crooked launcer, from the heele to the toe. 1611Florio, Lanciatore, a launcer. 1614T. White Martyrd. St. George C b, The Pincers, Lancers, Hunger, Thirst did tyre His holy bodie. a1625Boys Wks. (1629–30) 39 They did see him whetting his lancer to cut the throat of the disease. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 324/2 Another [Farriers Instrument] with a sharp point, called a Lancer.
▪ II. ˈlancer2|ˈlɑːnsə(r), -æ-|
Forms: 6 lancere, 6–7 launcier, 6–8 lancier, 7 lanceer(e, launceer, launcer, 7– lancer.
[a. or ad. F. lancier, f. lance lance n.1 Cf. late L. lanceārius or lanciārius.]
1. A (cavalry) soldier armed with a lance; now only, a soldier belonging to one of certain regiments officially called Lancers.
In the British army there were, in 1901, six regiments of Lancers, the 5th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 17th, and 21st. They were armed with carbine (formerly sword) and pistol as well as lance. They have since been reorganized as three regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps, the 16th/5th, 9th/12th, and 17th/21st Lancers.
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. i. ii. F 5 b, Backt by stout Lanceres of Germany. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xiii. §107. 740 In his Company were..not aboue fifteene Lanciers. 1611Florio, Lanciere, a launcier. 1648Lanc. Tracts (Chetham Soc.) 263 Collonal Thornhaugh..was slaine, being ran into the body, and thigh, and head, by the enemies Launcers. 1712Perquisite Monger 14 Invested with the Command of a Regiment of Horse and a Troop of Lanciers. 1833Regul. Instr. Cavalry i. 159 The lancer is to have his lance near the right foot. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 362 The lancer has sword and pistol besides his lance.
transf.a1657Lovelace Poems (1864) 177 The heron mounted doth appear On his own Peg'sus a lanceer.
2. pl. The name of a species of quadrille. Also the music proper to this dance.
1862Athenæum 25 Jan. 111 The ‘Lancers’, now so fashionable, was introduced by Laborde in 1836. 1868B. Harte Arctic Vision, Trip it all ye merry dancers In the airiest of lancers. 1870H. Smart Race for Wife i, As she whirls by in the Valse, or glides in front of them in the Lancers.
3. attrib. and Comb., as lancer-braiding, lancer-cap, lancer-regiment; also lancer-like adj.
1897Daily News 16 Mar. 6/4 Bolero white cloth is arranged under the *lancer braiding.
1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. iii. (1855) 45 The *lancer cap and green habit of the Honourable Juliana Beningfield!
1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 248 Making..quadrille and *lancer-like figures with sudden turns on the toes.
1868Regul. & Ord. Army ⁋1146 In a *lancer Regiment, the Men who collected the lances, are to be marched to the baggage waggons. |