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anlace arch.|ˈænləs, -ɪs|
Forms: 3 aunlaȝ, 4 anlas, anlaas, anelas, 5 analasse, 4–9 anlace, 9 anelace.
[Used 5 times in Latinized form anelacius, anelatius, by Matthew Paris, as a vulgar, i.e. English word. No traces of it in any continental language. The OWelsh anglas (in Gododin Poem, Skene 4 Bks. Wales II. 84, I. 399) is probably the same word, but nothing is known of its formation or origin.]
A short two-edged knife or dagger, broad at the hilt and tapering to the point, formerly worn at the girdle. (Obs. bef. 1500, erron. defined in early Dicts., and used loosely by mod. poets.)
[a1259Matt. Paris (p. 274, in Du Cange) Genus cultelli, quod vulgariter anelacius dicitur.] 1297R. Glouc. Chron. (1887 Rolls Ser.) 82 Þo hii were þoru out imengd·mid suerd & mid mace. Mid ax & mid anlas· so muche folc in þe place. a1300Havelok 2554 Hand-ax, sythe, gisarm, or spere, Or aunlaȝ, and god long knif. c1380Sir Ferumb. 5637 An anlas þo droȝ oute. c1386Chaucer Prol. 357 An Anlaas [v.r. ane-, anlas]..Heeng at his girdel. c1420Anturs of Arth. xxx. 13 Opon his cheueroune be-forn Stode as a vnicorn Als scharpe as a thorn An nanlas of stele. c1440Morte Arth. 1148 Arthur with ane anlace egerly smyttez. [1656Blount Glossogr., Anelate, a Faulchion or wood-knife, which I gather out of M[atthew] Par[is]. 1678Phillips, Anlace (old word), a Falchion or Sith-fashioned Sword. 1775Ash, Anlace, a short sword, a dagger, a wood-knife. ]1813Scott Rokeby v. xv, And by his side an anlace hung. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. liv, The Spanish maid..the anlace hath espoused, Sung the loud song, and dared the deed of war. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 112 The anelace or anelas, a broad dagger tapering to a very fine point. |