Lance
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.
(2): ( v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
(3): ( n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
(4): ( n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
(5): ( v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
(6): ( v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - often with at.
(7): ( v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
(8): ( v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
(9): ( v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
(10): ( n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
(11): ( v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
King James Dictionary [2]
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.
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.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [3]
kidon. A light spear that could be thrown at an enemy. Jeremiah 50:42 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
(כּידוֹן, kidon', so called from its destructive use, Jeremiah 1:42; elsewhere usually "spear"), a javelin or smaller kind of missile weapon, in distinction from the long-handled spear (חֲנית, chanith'), and the simple dart (שֶׁלִח, she'lach). (See Armor).
