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Definition of Anlace
1. n. A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle.
Definition of Anlace
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of anelace) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anlace
1. a medieval dagger [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anlace
Literary usage of Anlace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1870)
"Then a mickle strong Manne, in armour, carried a huge anlace ; after whom came six
... with greet Myght his anlace into the see, and the Clarions sounded an ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"It is known that the puisne judges are by ancient custom knighted; and we have
rio better explanation to offer, than that the dagger, anlace, or knife, ..."
3. Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets by David Masson (1856)
"... when the procession had reached the bridge, the " manne with the anlace" took
his station on a mound reared in the middle of it; how the rest gathered ..."
4. The New Novelist's Magazine, Or Entertaining Library of Pleasing and (1787)
"His anlace dropped blood ; and tore through the helmets of the foe, like the red
lightning of the/ ..."
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