Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
Spenser.
3. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set
afloat; as, to launch a ship.
With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, And rolled on
levers, launched her in the deep.
Pope.
4. To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a
start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the
world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in
England.
Eikon Basilike.
Launch, v. i. To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the
stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch
into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion;
to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke v. 4.
He [Spenser] launches out into very flowery paths.
Prior.
Launch, n. 1. The act of launching.
2. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the
sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
3. [Cf. Sp. lancha.] (Naut.) The boat of the largest size belonging to
a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha,
electricity, or the like.
Launching ways. (Naut.) See Way, n. (Naut.).
Laund (lnd), n. [See Lawn of grass.] A plain sprinkled with trees or
underbrush; a glade. [Obs.]
In a laund upon an hill of flowers.
Chaucer.
Through this laund anon the deer will come.
Shak.
Laun"der (län"dr), n. [Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandière, LL.
lavandena, from L. lavare to wash. See Lave.] 1. A washerwoman. [Obs.]
2. (Mining) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from
the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or
other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.
Laun"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laundered (-drd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Laundering.] 1. To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a
flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.