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• Gay

  ·noun An ornament. II. Gay ·superl Loose; dissipated; lewd. III. Gay ·superl Brilliant in colors; ...

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• Launce

  ·noun ·see <<Lant>>, the fish. II. Launce ·noun A <<Lance>>. III. Launce ·noun A <<Balance>>. ...

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• launce

  n. The Australian species of this fishis Congrogradus subducens, Richards., found in North-West Aus...

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• launce

  A term when the pump sucks from the Danish lœns, exhausted. Also, a west-country term for the sand...

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• Gay, John

  (1685-1732) Poet and dramatist, b. near Barnstaple of a good but decayed family. His parents dying ...

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• sand-launce

  ♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand. ...

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