Definition of "lancet" []

• Medicine A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions. Also called lance. (noun)
• Architecture A lancet arch. (noun)
• Architecture A lancet window. (noun)

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• "The barber carried a piece of rusty hoop instead of a razor, and a pot of grease for lather, while the doctor, with a huge pill box and a knife, which he called his lancet, stood by to prescribe the treatment each patient was to receive."
• "-- It is the pocket-knife, not the lancet, that is oftener called into requisition."
• "Then how does the Philanthus, in her long contact with the butchered Bee, manage to protect herself against that lancet, which is bent upon avenging the murder?"